Treatment Of Women In James Baldwin’s Go Tell It On The Mountain
Abstract
A feminist study of the female characters in James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain reveals the possibility of finding a solution to the age old issues. The novel shows that Black women experience trauma at the hands of both white and the members of their own race. Baldwin presents his characters to highlight the struggle of ordinary individuals and explains the difficulties that they face to survive. The female black characters are doubly marginalized and considered as a weak gender in society. Black women are at the receiving end of racial discrimination that provoked them to fight for gender equality and Baldwin is conscious of lifting up them in his works. Gender is the foundation on which Go Tell It on the Mountain is built. There is a hope that the possibility of the deeper structural change may enhance the present condition.
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