Feminist Isolation in Go Tell It on The Mountain And Another Country by James Baldwin
Journal Title: Notions A Journal of English Literature - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 4
Abstract
James Baldwin is an African American writer; he portrayed the life style and the situation of African American’s in the society. He has written six novels which he dealt with racism, sexism, love, repression, sin, religion, identity, isolation etc., most of his novels focused on isolated characters and it was dominated by female characters. Isolation means loneliness, which portrays the character of person separated from society, family, friends and their relatives. Even James Baldwin had been isolated by the society due to his race and colour and he had been insulted by the American’s in America. He didn’t get proper recognition for his writings and at last he migrated to France to full fill his needs. Like how he was isolated from the society, the same he portrayed in his novels through the characters. Both the genders might have come across this stage comparatively, female are facing it often in their life. Moreover, James Baldwin depicted some female characters who had been isolated themselves from the society in the mid of their life and later due to some remedy some of the characters had overcome that and led their life happily by reuniting with the society.
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P. Suganya
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