Abstract
This qualitative study aims to analyze Triple Oppression faced by
African American women using Conceptual Metaphor Theory in
the novel How to Make an American Quilt (1992) by Whitney Otto.
Triple Oppression as proposed by Jones (2017) involves the
categories of race, gender and class all together as features of
women oppression. For this purpose certain metaphors relevant
to the study have been selected and analyzed using Conceptual
Metaphor Analysis by Lakoff and Johnson (1980). Women, who
cannot find voice in society, find an expression in their
needlework. Individual stories, alongside personal and narrative
metaphors, of all members of a quilting group depict Triple
Oppression faced by them throughout their lives. Nonetheless
these women voice their sufferings in the quilting patterns. Their
voices echo through the designs and colors of their quilts. They
narrate their stories so secretly that even other members of the
same quilting group cannot sense it
Dr. Amna Saeed, BakhtawarMunir. (2020) Triple Oppression of African-American Women: Conceptual Metaphor Analysis of How to Make an American Quilt by Whitney Otto, Pakistan Social Sciences Review, Volume 4, Issue 2.
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