Saints, Sinners, Saviors [electronic resource] : Strong Black Women in African American Literature / by T. Harris.

Erişim Adresi
Link
ISBN
9781137051790
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/33751
Yazar
Harris, T.
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2001.
Yayın Bilgisi
New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.
Fiziksel Niteleme
VI, 218 p. online resource.
Özet, vb.
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.
Konu
America __ Literatures.
Sex.
Literature, Modern __ 20th century.
North American Literature.
Gender Studies.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Kurum Adı
SpringerLink (Online service)
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