Metaphor of Freedom: A Cognitive Black Feminist Study of The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead and Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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The past few years have seen an explosion in interest in cognitive approaches to literature. Metaphor has beenextremely important as a concept for understanding the workings of the mind throughout the cognitive disciplinesand as a means of meaning-making. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in their book, Metaphors We Live By (1980),define conceptual metaphors as our means of understanding abstract concepts in terms of more concrete ones.Many authors write figuratively by deploying literary devices like metaphor and irony to convey their meanings. Thecurrent study will analyze that metaphor is used to overcome the inadequacy of language in the face ofindescribable phenomena such as slavery, racism and especially double oppression on black women in Colsonwhitehead’s The Underground Railroad (2016) and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852). By usingthese titles as metaphors for freedom, these authors provide a critique of the white domination to change theconsciousness of the oppressed women and to manifest what they are in contrast to what they should be. PatriciaCollins tries to convey this through her book, Black Feminist Thought (2000), which will be used in this work toshow that all these oppressions exist even today. The result indicates that Whitehead has given life to the sameslavery story of Uncle Tom s Cabin which faded into obscurity over centuries to emotionally engage a globalaudience at the present time when racial hatred seems to be a thing of the past.

Authors

Sahar Jamshidian

Malayer University

Afsaneh Askar Motlagh

Malayer University