dc.contributor.advisor | Amin, Seema Nusrat | |
dc.contributor.author | Alam, Samina | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-06-10T03:49:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-06-10T03:49:01Z | |
dc.date.copyright | 2020 | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-09 | |
dc.identifier.other | ID: 16303007 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10361/14515 | |
dc.description | This internship report is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English, 2020. | en_US |
dc.description | Cataloged from PDF version of internship report. | |
dc.description | Includes bibliographical references (pages 64-70). | |
dc.description.abstract | The African Americans had been tortured and subjugated since the time of slave
trade when they were brought to America. Women of African American community had to
face more subjugation than the male one. They were the minor and inferior group who
experienced triple marginalization during the time of slavery and even after the abolition of
slavery. Civil rights movement, Women movement, Black movement etc could not change
their position in the society. Eventually, they did not consider black women’s effort and
experience in the account under the oppression of racism and sexism. They were not only
marginalized by the white man but also white women and black man in the society. There
were always a concept of gender hierarchy and competition between white women and black
women that created polarization in their relationship. It created an unavoidable and
unacceptable environment for black women in the society and forced them to challenge the
conventional feminist ideology. Black feminism and Womanism were the two different
ideologies and theories established by the African American women to explore their
individuality and create a significant mark in the white and male dominated patriarchal
society. The aim of this paper is to explore the struggle and oppression of black women in the
American society because of being ‘black’ and ‘woman’ through the lens of Black feminism
and Womanism. The paper will demonstrate the fact how they have achieved their self identity and established self-assertion under the domination of racism and sexism. To
demonstrate their situation and prove the content I have used three novels Incidents in the life
of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacob, Beloved and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. These novels
help the paper to depict the reality of slavery and the post slavery condition of black women.
The paper also describes how black women overcome the effect of slavery in their daily and
social life even in 20th century. Academic journals, books, articles are also used in this paper
to make the data stronger. | en_US |
dc.description.statementofresponsibility | Alam, Samina | |
dc.format.extent | 70 pages | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | BRAC University | en_US |
dc.rights | Brac University internship reports are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. | |
dc.subject | Marginalization of Black Women | en_US |
dc.subject | Slavery | en_US |
dc.subject | Self-Identity | en_US |
dc.subject | Self-Assertion | en_US |
dc.title | Marginalization of black women from slavery to contemporary time: Exploration of self-identity and self-assertion | en_US |
dc.type | Internship report | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Department of English and Humanities, Brac University | |
dc.description.degree | B.A. in English | |