Beschreibung
The author Gloria Naylor seeks to recover and remember the eroded history of female archetypes in order to overcome the pain that a patriarchal, misogynist society has caused for Black women. This book discusses Naylor’s literary revisionism against the backdrop of a radical Black Feminist Liberation Theology and a matrifocal Africana Womanism.
Autorenportrait
Dorothea Buehler is a graduate from the University of Würzburg. She is currently working at the English Department at Centralia College in Washington State.
Inhalt
Contents: New Wine in Old Skins: Revision of Christian Mythology – Biblical Appropriation in the African American Context – Bible meets Blues – A Lost and Ancient Song – Nommos: The Power of the Spoken Word – The Ties that Bind: of Mothers, Virgins, and Whores – The Biblical Quilt – The Mother Pattern – Archmothers and Controlling Images – The Tragic Loss of Mother – The Othermothers – The Virgin-Whore Dichotomy – Between Culprit and Scapegoat: Negotiating the Male – Geo-psychic Spaces – Spaces of Otherness – The Gendered Space – Telling the Whole Story – Literary Activism – Redemption in Writing.
