چکیده:
The present research tries to show how race, class, and gender and intersectionality in general, have their decisive impact on the black- American women; and how Alice Walker as a womanist, in her selected short stories, tries to show that black women in the U.S. suffer two-fold acts of oppression and discrimination, i.e. male violence affects all women in social life, irrespective of age or social standing, and at the same time being black has exacerbated the black American women’s situation. In the present study, the mentioned socio-political, socio-cultural and institutionalized intersectionality have been analyzed from the perspective of Alice Walker’s selected short stories. Full analysis have been carried out, from applied linguistic point of view, in Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” and “Roselily” while Alice Walker’s other short stories have been consulted for further analysis and discussion. The method used to analyze the data is descriptive research method.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"The next problem that we deal with in the present paper is to depict, through Alice Walker's selected short stories, the fact that womanism, in the way Alice Walker uses the term, wants to understand social reality from the point of view of women, to ask questions that relate directly or indirectly to women's lives, especially in America, and to uncover the systematic biases and distortions in malestream knowledge and practical approach.
Based on the nature and the aims of the present research on "race and violence from a womanist reading of some selected short stories of Alice Walker’s perspective", the researcher has postulated the following research questions and hypotheses: Q1: What are the impacts of race, class and gender oppression on the lives of Black American woman?
In reading Everyday Use the reader experiences a story about black, working-class women, how sensitive Alice Walker is about prevailing social facts, and thereby become more open and reflective to the history, cultural values, and concerns of people who are completely different from him or her in terms of gender, race, and class.
Considering the research questions, the main findings of the research on the issue of "race and violence: a womanist reading of some selected short stories of Alice Walker" the following findings can be summarized: Race, class, and gender oppression have deep and lasting impact on the lives of black American women.
As a "womanist" (the way in which she uses the term), Alice Walker, in her selected short stories, shows discrimination and devaluation used against black American women and how this line of thought, along with racism, results in violence in the society."