CULTURAL CONFLICTS IN ALICE WALKER’S THE THIRD LIFE OF GRANGE COPELAND.
- PhD Research Scholar, Dept of English, Bhusawal Arts, Science & P.O.Nahata Commerce College, Bhusawal.
- Research Supervisor, & Head, Dept of English, Bhusawal Arts, Science & P.O.Nahata Commerce College, Bhusawal.
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Racial inequalities imposed on African American Americans resulted in historic repression of the blacks and created an imbalance in society to give a way to conflict for human rights in racially fraught America. It offered authority to whites and relegating the blacks to the rags. The whites dominated each sphere in economy and there was no scope left for the blacks. Racial crisis and cultural conflicts drove the blacks in utter poverty and rejected the right to life. Alice Walker as an eminent African American writer deals with the ethnic issues and throws light on the historic repression of the blacks in America to voice the African Americans. Her firsthand experience of her parents’ lives as sharecroppers and their brutal exploitation enabled her to view it in her works more realistically. It encouraged the humanists to fight for the human rights in racially fraught America. The abolition of slavery did not uproot sharecropping completely. It continued even in more crude and violent form, ruined the blacks, and rejected them life worth to live as free human beings.
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[Ghansham S Baviskar and S. P. Zanke. (2017); CULTURAL CONFLICTS IN ALICE WALKER’S THE THIRD LIFE OF GRANGE COPELAND. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Feb). 2651-2655] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com
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