عنوان

African American literature and the classicist tradition :

(Number (ISBN

0230600220

(Number (ISBN

9780230600225

Number

b715273

Title Proper

African American literature and the classicist tradition :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

Black women writers from Wheatley to Morrison /

First Statement of Responsibility

Tracey L. Walters.

Edition Statement

1st ed.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Palgrave MacMillan,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2007.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

197 pages ;

Dimensions

22 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-194) and index.

Text of Note

Introduction: writing the classical Black: the poetic and political function of African American women's classical revision -- Historical overview of ancient and contemporary representation of classical mythology -- Classical discourse as political agency: African American revisionist mythmaking by Phillis Wheatley, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, and Pauline Hopkins -- Gwendolyn Brooks' racialization of the Persephone and Demeter myth in "the Anniad" and "in The Mecca" -- The destruction and reconstruction of classical and cultural myth in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, Beloved and The Bluest Eye -- A universal approach to classical mythology: Rita Dove's The Darker Face of the Earth and Mother Love.

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Text of Note

"This is a study exploring the 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 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."--Jacket.

Title

African American literature and the classicist tradition.

Parallel Title

Black women writers from Wheatley to Morrison

Schwarze, ...

University of South Alabama

American literature-- African American authors-- Classical influences.

American literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism.

Mythology in literature.

American literature-- Women authors.

Antike

Frauenliteratur

Mythologie

Mythology in literature.

mythos

Rezeption

USA.

7

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Class number

System Code

Walters, Tracey Lorraine.

Date of Transaction

20201208053302.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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