• K.PRIYADHARSHINI

This paper aims to present the voices of coloured people in Kathryn Stockett’s The Help. Kathryn Stockett , an American novelist , born and raised in Jackson , Mississippi is a graduate from the university of Alabama. The title The Help stands for the help rendered by Skeeter to the blacksmith in Jackson through which their stories come to light. Despite belonging to the dominant class of the society, Stockett writes on the African American maids with utmost clarity and depicts the characters like Aibileen and Minny . They raised out their voices of struggle they faced being a black maid in white people’s house with the help of ‘Skeeter’. She belong to the dominant group in the society. Stockett had faced many adverse situation on her journey as the writer of the novel. The genre is acknowledged as a classic of world literature as , novels , short stories written specially on colored people. This novel is also considered as an autobiographical novel . The help highlights the relationship dynamic between the white and their African, domestic help in the south . This novel gained its significance for its profound language for rich style used by the author . A white author writing in a black vernacular is a risky territory, but Stockett had the potential to work through the concept. This story mainly focuses on the real life experience of the author. The maids succeed in getting their voices heard, though they were aware of the upcoming risk that they would face after the publication of book The Help. The novel was recognized for its signifying concept and for true values of human life in the society.

THE BLACK MAID’S VOICE IN KATHRYN STOCKETT’S THE HELP

"THE BLACK MAID’S VOICE IN KATHRYN STOCKETT’S THE HELP", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.562-565, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAG06117.pdf

"THE BLACK MAID’S VOICE IN KATHRYN STOCKETT’S THE HELP", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp562-565, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAG06117.pdf