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Transitivity Analysis of Women of Colour’s Oppression(s) in Angelou and Durrani’s Autobiographies
Abstract
Women of color are doubly segregated not only because of their gender but also their color and race. They have always been regarded as suffering from same oppression and suppression irrespective of their society, cultural differences, ethnocentric location, and class. In this study, the researchers' objective is to compare and contrast the portrayal of oppression(s) of women of color in Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) and Durrani’s My Feudal Lord (1995) and to critically probe their grouping under homogenous category of women of color. The data consist of two extracts from each narrative that have been chosen through purposive sampling technique in order to conduct the transitivity analysis at clause level. The researchers have used Halliday's transitivity analysis (1994) to analyze the selected data. In order to analyze the data qualitatively from feminist perspective, Beauvoir's constructivist notion of womanhood (1949/1953) has been applied on the data selected from My Feudal Lord (1995), and theories of hooks (1981) and Mohanty (1984) have been applied on the data selected from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969). This study's findings reveal that oppressions, sufferings and experiences of marginalized women of color vary with respect to class, race, ethnocentric location and cultural differences.
Authors
Mahnoor Zahra
Department of English, The Women University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan
Munazzah Rabbani
Assistant Professor, Department of English, The Women University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan
Keywords
Female Oppression, Homogenization, Transitivity, Women of Color
