A Reading of the Female Psyche and Identity Spaces in Yashica Dutt’s Coming Out as a Dalit and Ntozake Shange and Ifa Bayeza’s Some Sing, Some Cry

Abstract

African American Literature has come into being from the writers of American descent living in the United States of America. On the other hand, Dalit literature has emerged from the caste differences in the Indian society. These two types of women across nations try to defy the generic conventions that have arisen from executed sets of characteristics that insist on regimenting women’s body politics in specific. This paper focuses on the power struggle of two different nations and explores the connection that is bound together due to racial segregation of spaces due to caste and cultural differences. Dalit women are imperilled to manifold subjugations grounded based on caste, gender, and class. This paper will compare two different literatures through the novels of Ntozake Shange and Ifa Bayeza’s Some Sing, Some Cry and Yashica Dutt’s Coming Out as a Dalit. The focus of these two writers is to portray the man-made calamities and adversities that both these African American women and Dalit women faces to survive in their respective societies to succeed in their life by enchanting themselves with the various tassels of life. Women from both of these novels have learned to accept life wholeheartedly even in the midst of desperation and horror. This paper will try to focus on how women engender their chronicles of pain and belonginess in order to weave tales of women’s authorization for the need of realization for their progenies.