A PERINEAL SILENCE DISRUPTED: BAMA’S KARUKKU AND TONI MORRISON’S SULA
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Author(s):
CHARLES JOSEPH
Vol - 5, Issue- 1 ,
Page(s) : 5 - 9
(2015 )
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/RJSET
Abstract
Voices from the marginalized sections have been profane with their singular experience of oppression, exploitation, subjugation, suffering and endurance. Having remained silent for so long, their muted anguish finds no alternative until the unbreakable experience of humiliation sensitizes their identity and urges them to make themselves move from invisibility to visibility. This move signals the breaking of age old silence, an act of self assertion as well as self perception. The journey from anonymity to presence, though very hard, is a rewarding one for the marginalized self. Such a journey is remarkably announced in Dalit Literature and African American Literature.
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