Culture-bearing Women The Black Women Renaissance and Cultural Nationalism
The study examines the fiction of Black Women's Renaissance. It focuses on the novels of the 1980s, which appreciated "culture-bearing" mothers as reproducers of the nation, to analyze the vexed relationship between cultural nationalism and feminism. It argues that the BWR created &qu...
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| Formato: | Electrónico Capítulo de libro |
| Lenguaje: | inglés |
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Berlin/Boston
De Gruyter
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | DOAB: download the publication DOAB: description of the publication |
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| Sumario: | The study examines the fiction of Black Women's Renaissance. It focuses on the novels of the 1980s, which appreciated "culture-bearing" mothers as reproducers of the nation, to analyze the vexed relationship between cultural nationalism and feminism. It argues that the BWR created "matrifocal" nationalism that made black women principal agents of national identity, but also promoted gender essentialism at the expense of social and economic issues. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 electronic resource (220 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9788395609558 9788395609541 9788395609565 |
| Acceso: | Open Access |