Abstract: Autobiographical genre plays an important role in the construction of personal identity. Though it is written with the purpose of self- revelation and self-exploration but it also focuses on memoir, anecdotes and some time it also works on ethnography- a large socio-cultural group or the socio-economic hierarchy of bourgeois culture which is also famously known as cultural hegemony- the term or theory coined by Antonio (1891–1937) where the world always follow the path of the fixed sets of norm, ideology or belief, which is created by dominant class and supported the notion of binary opposition where one is always perceived as inferior and other as superior or typically one of the two opposite assumes a role of dominance over other. The purpose of this study is to disclose the darkness in the mind of the black people through a critical examination of the soul of the black folk, causes of their invisibility and an evolution of self- image in the world of dualism. Maya Angelou, through her poem Caged Bird and Still I Rise , has not only become the spokesperson for her community but also break away all given oppressive, patriarchal, male dominated order of the society and transform an imaginative space to real space for her and all women.
Keywords: Binary Opposition, Black Feminism, Cultural Hegemony, Deconstruction Self-Esteem, Transcendentalism.
Title: Towards the Black Psychology: A Journey from Caged Bird to Still I Rise
Author: Rakhi Gupta
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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