The Phenomenal Women A Comparative Study of the Select Poetry of Maya Angelou and Meena Kandasamy

Abstract

African American Literature deals with human slaverywhereas Indian Dalit newlineliterature deals with Untouchability. Both literary canons reflectsuffering, sorrow, newlineanxieties, agonies, bitter experiences, injustices of the neglected human beings. It is a newlinetrance continental (Indian Dalit Literature and American African Black Literature) study of newlineblack women and Indian Dalit women subjugation through discriminations and patriarchal newlinesystems. Their life is known asstruggle, without effort they have not their survival of life. newlineAt each and every step of existence, they must resist. Their effort is not only for money newlinesake but for their fundamental needs, at first to fulfil hunger they have not any wealth newlinewhich left from their parents. Their experiences, joys and sorrows, and struggles are related newlinein the lowest strata of society. Injustice and exploitation, bitter experiences discrimination newlineand domination of patriarchy committed with life. newlineAmerican Blacks and Indian Dalits were belonging as secondary human being had newlinefaced the equal problems of social, economical, psychological, and political. Blacks were newlinesupposed as secondary human being due to their belongingness of race and colour whereas newlineIndian Dalits were considered as a secondary human being on the part of lower caste. In newlinefact race, colour, and caste are not inheriting things, they are man-made concepts, through newlinethese discriminations, American whites and Indian upper castes were dominating the poor newlineand weak community of Blacks and Dalits respectively. newlineAmerican capitalists need labours for the various industrial and agricultural works. newlineThey purchased the black people from the African continent. Black trapped in various newlineexploitations, violence, agonies, sorrows, and anguishes. Blacks had been scattered all over newlinethe place of America as a slave. His fortune had written as a hard worker. He had full of newlinetension, as a human being he couldn t ask his difficulties to be free from human slavery. A newlineblack woman could express her anger and indignation over the manner in which she newlinesuffe