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African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition
Tracey L. Walters
其他書名
Black Women Writers from Wheatley to Morrison
出版
Palgrave Macmillan
, 2007-10-15
主題
Fiction / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Literary Collections / American / African American & Black
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / American / General
Literary Criticism / American / African American & Black
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / Women Authors
Literary Criticism / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century
Social Science / Anthropology / General
Social Science / Gender Studies
ISBN
0230600220
9780230600225
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=jJ1lAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
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 liberating space where they can "speak the unspeakable" and empower their subjects as well as themselves.