Volume : 5, Issue : 4, April - 2016

Issues from Subaltern Autobiographies: Maya Angelou�s �I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings� and Bama�s �Karukku�

Aarti Kumari

Abstract :

<p>&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;This research paper is going to deal with two autobiographies Maya Angelou&amp;amp;rsquo;s &amp;amp;lsquo;I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings&amp;amp;rsquo; and Bama&amp;amp;rsquo;s &amp;amp;lsquo;Karukku&amp;amp;rsquo;. Both are the first autobiographies of their writers representing their community&amp;amp;rsquo;s voice. These deal with social issues like religion, gender and racial or casteist discrimination. The present paper explores self and ethnic identity and focues on the causative role of individual in constructing ethnic identity. It will also investigate how their writers negotiate Black female and Dalit female identity. We are going to deal with notion of sociological approach from Bouvoir, Gupta, Wood and Feldman&amp;amp;rsquo;s perspective for analysis of texts.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;</p>