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African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition: Black Women Writers from Wheatley to Morrison
African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition: Black Women Writers from Wheatley to Morrison
Walters, T.
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This is a groundbreaking study exploring the significant relationship between western classical mythology and African American women's literature. A comparative analysis of classical revisions by eighteenth and nineteenth century Black women writers Phillis Wheatley and Pauline Hopkins and twentieth century writers Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, and Rita Dove reveals that Black women writers revise specific classical myths for artistic and political agency. The study demonstrates that women rework myth to represent mythical stories from the Black female perspective and to counteract denigrating contemporary cultural and social myths that disempower and devalue Black womanhood. Through their adaptations of classical myths about motherhood, Wheatley, Ray, Brooks, Morrison, and Dove uncover the shared experiences of mythic mothers and their contemporary African American counterparts thus offering a unique Black feminist perspective to classicism. The women also use myth as a liberatingspace where they can 'speak the unspeakable' and empower their subjects as well as themselves.
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SPRINGER NATURE
Bisac Major Subject
Literary Criticism
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Women Authors
Binding Type
Hardcover
Edition Description
2007
Country Of Origin
US
Number Of Units
1
Length
8.5 Inches
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Width
5.5 Inches
Publication Date
2007-10-30
Height
0.63 Inches
ISBN 10
0230600220
Weight
0.91 Pounds
Book EAN
9780230600225
Target Audiance
Adults
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