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Item Double Victimization of Black Women in Toni Morrison's A Mercy(Department of English, 2014) Gautam, Gopal PrasadThis research attempts to study Toni Morrison's novel A Mercy by using black feminism as a theoretical insight. This work focuses on black female's experience in the patriarchal and racial society, wherein they have to undergo double domination. Male characters control over female is in the name of race and gender having sense of superiority upon them as seen in Florens, a female slave, is sold as an animal and exploited severely. The research study shows the female victimization in racist society wherein they are compelled to face severe exploitation due to double domination, i.e., in terms of race and genderItem Racial and Gender Trauma in Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings(Central Department of English Kirtipur, Kathmandu, 2016) Dam, SabitaThis research work analyzes racial and gender trauma evoking the tormented state of the narrator, Maya in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Taking the ideas from Jeffery C. Alexander‟s notion of cultural trauma, the research analyzes the experiences of depressed African American women without identities. The narrator struggles to develop her dignified self and nonconformist outlook comes to block her after she was raped by her mother‟s boyfriend Mr. Freeeman. The mysterious murder of her rapist creates the guilt, shame in her psychic as she thinks that she is responsible for his murder. The narrator suffering from the guilt and self-loathing resultsin her psychic turmoil. She stops speaking to people except her brother, Bailey. In the novel, Angelou tries to raise the voice of Black women to achieve dignified identity in the white racist and sexist America looking back on her childhood experiences. In this regard, this research aims to show reasons that cause the traumatic situation in the narrator due to several events that erupt in African American societies. Not only this, this research work explores issues related to the cause of racial and gender trauma and discusses how the narrator succeeds in working through trauma while in some cases the narrator just acts out it.Item Resisting Patriarchy Through Female Bonding: A Study Of Cleage'sFlyin' West(2015) Risal, AsmitaPearl Cleage'sFlyin' West documents the situation of women and their raising consciousness for resisting patriarchal domination in Nicodemus, Kansas. The patriarchal domination of Frank Charles compels all the female characters to revolt against it for their betterment. Black women who were facing the domination of patriarchal thinking go against their husband and male relative as they become conscious and strong toward their self-identity. To go against the male domination black females make an unconventional bonding with each other. To protest this domination Cleage gives black female characters a central and strong position and advocates female bonding among them. Bymaking the oppression visible, Cleage advocates for woman's empowerment and freedom to overcome patriarchal domination. Black females' support for each other leads them to the goal of freedom and their unconditional support to each other leads them to the victory over patriarchy.