SYMPHONY OF SIMILAR VOICES OF THE AFRICAN- AMERICAN AND THE INDIAN DALIT WOMEN; A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE NARRATIVES OF TONI MORRISON & BABY KAMBLE

Abstract

Sometimes we wonder how the challenges before women remain universal. African American women and Dalit women in India faced many of the same challenges and hardships. Though these two communities are located on opposite sides of the globe, the women of these two cultures have experienced similar marginalization and persecution at the hands of their oppressors. This study focuses on the challenges that these subaltern women have faced for a long time, including racial discrimination, gender inequality, class inequalities, caste oppression, slavery, and other forms of oppression. Throughout their life, African American women were subjected to forced servitude, racial degradation, and tyranny. And Dalit women in India were oppressed by the inhumane practice of casteism, which rendered them untouchable and subjected them to double discrimination from higher castes and male chauvinists inside their households. As a result, the emphasis is on the depiction of their tragic life, which was put on them forcibly. The lives of these people are depicted in the works of numerous writers from the African American and Indian Dalit communities. The greatest pieces are Beloved by Toni Morrison and The Prisons We Broke by Baby Kamble. As a result of the challenges they experienced, these women raised their voices against injustice via various narratives that they employed as a means of shedding light on their harsh and oppressive animal-like lifestyles. Both nations' governments took up this cause in the hopes of bringing them justice in the future. The answers to this problem are enacted by the individual nations' constitutions, which enact legislation to support and liberate these women from the clutches of their oppressors. These doubly oppressed women who have been silent for a long time now have the right to speak up about their difficulties.