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Auteur(s) : Moore, Geneva Cobb Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : Maternal metaphors of power in African American women's literature [Texte imprimé] : from Phillis Wheatley to Toni Morrison / Geneva Cobb Moore ; foreword by Andrew Billingsley

Publication : Columbia (S.C.) : the University of South Carolina press, 2017

Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIV-361 p.) ; 24 cm

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-346) and index
"Geneva Cobb Moore deftly combines literature, history, criticism, and theory in Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature by offering insight into the historical black experience from slavery to freedom as depicted in the literature of nine female writers across several centuries. Moore traces black women writers' creation of feminine and maternal metaphors of power in literature from the colonial era work of Phillis Wheatley to the postmodern work of Paule Marshall, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison. Through their characters Moore shows how these writers re-create the identity of black women and challenge existing rules shaping their subordinate status and behavior. Drawing on feminist, psychoanalytic, and other social science theory, Moore examines the maternal iconography and counter-hegemonic narratives by which these writers responded to oppressive conventions of race, gender, and authority. Moore grounds her account in studies of Phillis Wheatley, Harriet Jacobs, Charlotte Forten Grimké, Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston. All these authors, she contends, wrote against invisibility and powerlessness by developing and cultivating a personal voice and an individual story of vulnerability, nurturing capacity, and agency that confounded prevailing notions of race and gender and called into question moral reform. In these nine writers' construction of feminine images--real and symbolic--Moore finds a shared sense of the historically significant role of black women in the liberation struggle during slavery, the Jim Crow period, and beyond."

Autre(s) auteur(s) : Billingsley, Andrew (1926-....). Préfacier Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Sujet(s) : Littérature américaine -- Auteurs noirs américains -- Thèmes, motifs Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Littérature américaine -- Femmes écrivains -- Thèmes, motifs Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Noires américaines -- Dans la littérature Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet