Black Women S Literature Of The Americas
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Black Women S Literature Of The Americas
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Author : Tonia Leigh Wind
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-11-25
Black Women S Literature Of The Americas written by Tonia Leigh Wind and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Drawing on a range of historical and literary texts, this book examines how Black women under the yoke of slavery negotiated their sense of belonging and spirituality from a liminal position, stuck between a new life in the Americas, and their connections to their African ancestral roots and a wider diasporic community. The book investigates how Black women in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, the United States, and Brazil turned to their spiritual beliefs as a tool of resilience and resistance. These “griots” and “goddesses” are forced to negotiate complex issues such as race, gender, identity, maternity, sexuality, and belonging, from a liminal position that looks to both settle roots in a foreign land, and stay connected to ancestors and the Sacred. As these Black female protagonists turn to (re)memory and ancestral knowledge to map their connection with the Divine, they become mediators of worlds, and hybrid griots surpassing temporal and geographical boundaries. With important reflections on Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s Daughters of the Stone, and Ana Maria Gonçalves’s Um Defeito de Cor, amongst other texts, this book will be of interest to advanced students and researchers of comparative literature, religious studies, gender studies, and African diaspora studies.
Black Women S Literature Of The Americas
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Author : Tonia L. Wind
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2023-05
Black Women S Literature Of The Americas written by Tonia L. Wind and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05 with African diaspora in literature categories.
Drawing on a range of historical and literary texts, this book examines how Black women under the yoke of slavery negotiated their sense of belonging and spirituality from a liminal position, stuck between a new life in the Americas, and their connections to their African ancestral roots and a wider diasporic community.
Specifying
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Author : Susan Willis
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 1987
Specifying written by Susan Willis and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with African American women categories.
Focusing on Zola Neale Hurston, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Toni Cade Bambara, this book explores both the ways in which black women's fictions have been shaped by the history of the United states, and the ways in which they intervene in that history. She sees the transition from an agrarian to an urban society as the critical moment of that history, and argues that writings by black women articulate that change in their content as well as form. ISBN 0-299-10890-2 : $19.95.
Saints Sinners Saviors
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Author : T. Harris
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-30
Saints Sinners Saviors written by T. Harris and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature posits strength as a frequently contradictory and damaging trait for black women characters in several literary works of the twentieth century. Authors of these works draw upon popular images of African American women in producing what they believe to be safe literary representations. Instead, strength becomes a problematic trait, at times a disease, in many characters in which it appears. It has a detrimental impact on the relatives and neighbors of such women as well as on the women themselves. The pattern of portraying women characters as strong in African American literature has become so pronounced that it has stifled the literature.
The Cambridge Companion To African American Women S Literature
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Author : Angelyn Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-04-30
The Cambridge Companion To African American Women S Literature written by Angelyn Mitchell and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature covers a period dating back to the eighteenth century. These specially commissioned essays highlight the artistry, complexity and diversity of a literary tradition that ranges from Lucy Terry to Toni Morrison. A wide range of topics are addressed, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement, and from the performing arts to popular fiction. Together, the essays provide an invaluable guide to a rich, complex tradition of women writers in conversation with each other as they critique American society and influence American letters. Accessible and vibrant, with the needs of undergraduate students in mind, this Companion will be of great interest to anybody who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of this important and vital area of American literature.
Reading Contemporary African American Literature
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Author : Beauty Bragg
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2014-11-12
Reading Contemporary African American Literature written by Beauty Bragg and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book covers several distinctive moments of the post-civil rights era; the black power period, the affirmative action period, and the neoliberal period. It inspects representative texts and critical approaches associated with each period, covering a variety of authors and genres from Toni Morrison’s mythic fiction to Wahida Clark’s street lit.
Women S Work
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Author : Courtney Thorsson
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2013-06-17
Women S Work written by Courtney Thorsson and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Women’s Work, Courtney Thorsson reconsiders the gender, genre, and geography of African American nationalism as she explores the aesthetic history of African American writing by women. Building on and departing from the Black Arts Movement, the literary fiction of such writers as Toni Cade Bambara, Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor, Ntozake Shange, and Toni Morrison employs a cultural nationalism—practiced by their characters as "women's work"—that defines a distinct contemporary literary movement, demanding attention to the continued relevance of nation in post–Black Arts writing. Identifying five forms of women's work as organizing, dancing, mapping, cooking, and inscribing, Thorsson shows how these writers reclaimed and revised cultural nationalism to hail African America.
Female Subjectivity In African American Women S Narratives Of Enslavement
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Author : L. Myles
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-10-26
Female Subjectivity In African American Women S Narratives Of Enslavement written by L. Myles and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-26 with Social Science categories.
Female Subjectivity in African American Women s Narratives of Enslavement is a new and innovative study of black women s transformation, which focuses on black women writers who support the notion of separate location for a changed female consciousness. This book offers the concept of the "Transient Woman" as a new paradigm and feminist vision for analyzing female subjectivity and consciousness.
Black Women Writers And The American Neo Slave Narrative
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Author : Elizabeth A. Beaulieu
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1999-03-30
Black Women Writers And The American Neo Slave Narrative written by Elizabeth A. Beaulieu and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
The neo-slave narrative is an important development in American literary history and has serious revisionist intentions at its foundation. This book examines how contemporary African American women writers have shaped the genre. These authors have written neo-slave narratives to reinscribe history from the perspective of the African American woman, most specifically the nineteenth century enslaved mother. The writers considered in this study—Sherley Anne Williams, Toni Morrison, J. California Cooper, Gayl Jones, and Octavia Butler—explore American slavery through the lens of gender, both to interrogate the myth that enslaved women, denied the privilege of having a gender identity by the institution of slavery, were in fact genderless, and to celebrate the acts of resistance which enabled enslaved women to mother in the fullest sense of the term. The volume begins with an overview of historical representations of slavery in America, from the slave narrative itself to the revisionist scholarship of the 1960s. The book then examines several individual neo-slave narratives, such as Margaret Walker's Jubilee (1966), Williams' Dessa Rose (1986), Morrison's Beloved (1987), Cooper's Family (1991), Jones' Corregidora (1975), and Butler's Kindred (1979). What the women in these novels have in common is the fact that they mother; what the writers have in common is a tendency to utilize subversive strategies such as reversal, blurring, and the creation of myth to dramatize gender identity and to highlight the varied nature of motherhood as enslaved women experienced it. The final chapter evaluates the influence of the neo-slave narrative on American literature in general and on popular perceptions and misperceptions of African American women.
Black Women Novelists And The Nationalist Aesthetic
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Author : Madhu Dubey
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1994
Black Women Novelists And The Nationalist Aesthetic written by Madhu Dubey and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Fiction categories.
Focus on the works of Toni Morrison, Gaye Jones, and Alice Walker.