Critique of Racial Injustice in Judie Oron’s Cry of the Giraffe

Abstract

This research based on Judie Oron’s true story Cry of the Giraffe is an effort to underscore the complexities, persecution and suffering inherent in Ethiopian society: Oron portrays the humiliating condition of slaves and domination of marginalized or lower class people at the hand of native Christians in Ethiopia to exercise and protect their culture freely. But the native Christians begin to persecute and dominate them in the name of race. Christians used to blame that Jews are the killer of Lord Jews, which was based on a mythical story of Jesus. Race becomes the main cause of suffering to Jews which follow them even in their exiled life in Sudani refugee camp. They had to hide their identity there in the name of being marginalized or racial people. They had to face a kind of domination. The research aims unraveling the different aspect of racial experience of Jews people. The Jews people faced so many problems like domination, subjugation, hegemonisation, sexual abuse, slave and prostitute. At last they were able to get back to their own land escaping from domination. The research concludes to prove the hypothesis that Oron’s novel differs from other African American novel.