The Oppression Of The Oppressed In The Blacks Community In Alice Walker’s “The Third Life Of Grange Copeland”

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Safaa Haqi Ismaiel and Assist. Prof. Susan Raheem Rahman Jaf

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Alice Walker, born February 9, 1944 in Eatonton Georgia, is a black American writer whose novels, short stories, and poems are noted for dealing with the African American culture. She grew up poor, working with her mother as a maid to help in supporting a big family of 8 children. The current study is; therefore, an attempt to shed light on the oppression of the Oppressed people in the Blacks Community in Alice Walker’s The Third Life of Grange Copeland. The aim of this study is to reveal the impact of The Oppression of the Oppressed in the Blacks Community as well as the impact of domestic violence, and to create a new identity for the weak black people in the American society in the recent era, give them a voice, and make them self-confident: socially, emotionally and spiritually. The study brings out the connection of gender and race with the oppression and discrimination that causes psychological trauma in the black community. The novel clearly portrays the multifaceted violence suffered by the blacks, thus, the novelist exposes her themes through the main black characters in order to offer the reader a real insightful depiction and send a message to the entire world about the ill treatment, marginalization and multi faced exploitation that most of black people have been suffering for centuries. Through introducing the concept of oppression, the novelist pursues to reveal her miserable experience of racism that is concerned with the feeling of oppression from the blacks and sometimes from within.

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