Postcolonial Space and Identity in African American Women Writers' Selected Writings

This study expounds on African American women writers' fidelity to their ancestral legacy, and manipulation of the White master to the blacks in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), The Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker, and Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison. For this purpose, this study claims that these writers create a space, very much similar to the postcolonial space, where their characters exercise freedom, reshape their independent identities, inscribe their brutal experiences, and rebuttal to White masters. This textual analysis takes the postcolonial dimension with the significant perspectives of Andrew Teverson and Sara Upstone's Postcolonial Spaces, interlinked with Homi K. Bhabha's Third Space Theory. The study sums up that it was the keenness of the Afro-American women writers that they, through the postcolonial space, wrote about the dark legacy of the past, for the socio-political changes, to regain their identity, and liberated themselves through their stories.