Description

This book attempts to identify the subversive writing techniques adopted by the black female authors to empower their black female protagonists. Maryse Condé in I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem, Gloria Naylor in Mama Day, Alice Walker in The Color Purple, Ntozake Shange in Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo, and Toni Morrison in Beloved demonstrate how their victimised black female protagonists unify with other afflicted black women to challenge stereotypical ideologies of patriarchal society, to interrupt the continuity of their subjugation in order to emancipate as a collective and to reconstruct their future.

About Author

Md Abu Shahid Abdullah completed his MA in English and American Studies and his PhD in English literature at Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg, Germany. He is currently an Assistant Professor in English at East West University, Bangladesh. His first book Traumatic Experience and Repressed Memory in Magical Realist Novels: Speaking the Unspeakable and his second book Trauma, Memory and Identity Crisis: Reimagining and Rewriting the Past was published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2020 and 2022 respectively. His next book Magical Feminism in the Americas: Resisting Female Marginalisation and Oppression through Magic is expected to be published by Vernon Press in 2024.

Moutushi Islam completed her BA (Hon’s) and MA in English from East West University, Bangladesh. She has been interested in feminist studies, magical realism, film studies and fantasy. Ms. Islam has spent years developing her singing skills in Indian Classical Music. She has also been working as a professional singer in Bangladesh Music Industry since 2014. She enjoys reading books, writing and painting at her leisure. Although she is a music enthusiast and has taken singing as her profession, she also aspires to become an academic.