Black Lives Matters: A Feminist Exploration of the Developmental Stages of the Protagonist Queenie Jenkins in Candice Carty Williams’ ‘Queenie’

Saba Mohy-ud-Din Chishti

doi:10.47067/jlcc.v2i2.46

Authors

Saba Mohy-ud-Din Chishti

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47067/jlcc.v2i2.46

Keywords:

Racial Oppression, Developmental Stages

Abstract

The study seeks to explore the sufferings and oppression that has to be faced by the women on the basis of their color. The racial oppression will take into account the example of the protagonist Queenie Jenkins from ‘Queenie’ by Candice Carty Williams. The study analyzes the major developmental stages of the life of protagonist; how she suffers in the beginning, then realizes her worth in the society and ultimately turns into a totally different person in the end. The study will analyze how being Black in the wrong place at the wrong time affected every aspect of lives of women of which Queenie was also the one. The findings reveal that the rejection of oppression and the revolutionary movement makes its place under the notion ‘Black Lives Matter’.

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