Maternal metaphors of power in African American women's literature : from Phillis Wheatley to Toni Morrison
Moore, Geneva Cobb
| 자료유형 | 단행본 |
|---|---|
| 서명/저자사항 | Maternal metaphors of power in African American women's literature : from Phillis Wheatley to Toni Morrison / Geneva Cobb Moore ; foreword by Andrew Billingsley. |
| 개인저자 | Moore, Geneva Cobb. Billingsley, Andrew. |
| 발행사항 | Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2017] |
| 형태사항 | xiv, 361 p. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN | 9781611177480 (hardback) |
| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 요약 | "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."-- |
| 해제 | Provided by publisher. |
| 일반주제명 | American literature --African American authors --History and criticism. American literature --Women authors --History and criticism. African American women in literature. Power (Social sciences) in literature. Motherhood in literature. |
| 분류기호 | 820.9 |
| 언어 | 영어 |
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