The Progression of Women from Suppression to Self-Assertion in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Urmila Pawar’s Mother Wit

Abstract

Different facets of subverted women’s identity in India and USA are splited because of the way race functions in USA and how the caste operates in India. Black women are burdened from racial, sexual and class disadvantages. They are strained to live in a much oppressed conditions in a male dominated society. Similarly a nascent Dalit Feminism evoked in India. Dalit women were spoiled of their honour, dignity and identity. The responsibility of bringing them back, their discarded humanity and their independence falls on the shoulders of black women writers in America as well as Indian Dalit writers in India through their writings. The systematical attempts were done by the writers in the respective nations, with the living experiences of struggled and questioned to mitigate the inescapable subordination.