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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