Literature has been a powerful tool for social change. It documents the historical attempts that people have made to reach their rightful place in destiny despite oppression and discrimination at different levels. The struggle against oppressive forces such as race, class and gender has been a never-ending process, despite strong demands for so-called equality and justice. The greatness of man throughout our history is measured in terms of resolve and courage to question the harmful forces that perpetuate and sponsor discrimination in one form or another. Silence is guilt where speaking without fear is fundamental courage. Whether it is blacks in the West or Dalits in the East, it is the spirit of rebellion or resistance in the face of oppression that distinguishes them from others. All the great literatures of today invariably aim to capture those moments of man's continuing struggle for freedom and independence, while our established critical theories seek to evaluate those proclaimed values. In general, African American writings reflect on the experience of oppressed people who have been victims of politically motivated or socially engineered forces. This article aims to examine different dimensions of the experience of abandonment, subjugation, oppression, discrimination and isolation in order to collectively conceptualize the fundamental questions involved in our understanding of human life and destiny. Furthermore, it aims to examine the different historical, cultural, socio-political, critical and generic dimensions of the terms 'freedom' and 'identity' and their relation to the context of modern India today. A detailed analysis of the writings of Afro-Am......middle of paper......Writers is expected. New York: Pergamon Press, 1985.Du Bois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black People: The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: WWNorton & Company, 1997. 14, 613 and 711.--- --- Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the "Racial" Self (first ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. 1987.--- ---- The significant monkey (first ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. 1988.--- --- Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars (first ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. 1992. Douglas, Frederick. An account of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave. Oxford Paperbacks; Reprint edition, 2009. Davis, Cyntia. “Self, Society, and Myth in the Fiction of Toni Morrison,” ContemporaryLiterature, 23, 3. Summer 1982. 337. Fannon, Frantz. The damned of the earth. Trans. Constance Farrington. London. Penguin books, 1990.