RACE, FEMINISM AND REPRESENTATION: AN INQUIRY INTO MAYA ANGELOU’S POETRY

The study focuses on Angelou’s poetry to capture the phenomenon of resistance in the background of post colonialism. As her poetry is an articulation of the process of struggle for national, racial, and lingual identity. She addresses the dichotomy of black and white, feminity and masculinity, minor and major, self and other, inferiority and superiority, and orient and occident. The analysis of her poetry helps to affix her amid subversive writers who question the dominance and subordination, dealing with the imagery of interspersed themes of lost past, deteriorated present in a cultural context against the colonial enterprise.