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| Dr.Geetha, delivering her talk on African American Literature |
Dr.Geetha, gave a bird's eye-view of African American Literature, she starting with the Black-White symbolism, where white stood for everything that is good, beautiful and pure, wheareas black came to stand for all that is bad, evil, night, ugliness and hell. She elaborated on Noah's curse, and the European yardstick which states that any nation that has a written tradition of literature is considered to be civilised, and since African literature was primarily oral, they were considered uncivilised. Indeed, they were also called as the 'missing link' between man and the apes, and as 'noble savage' who needed to be civilised.
Tracing the oppression of the Africans from the time of the Slave markets, where a white landlord was assessed for his riches based on the number of slaves that he owned, she delved into the two stereotypes created by Darwin's evolutionary theory.... to be contd...
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