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African American literature and the classicist traditionBlack women writers from Wheatley to Morrison /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	African American literature and the classicist traditionTracey L. Walters.
Reminder of title:	Black women writers from Wheatley to Morrison /
Author:	Walters, Tracey Lorraine.
Published:	New York :Palgrave MacMillan,2007.
Description:	197 p.
Subject:	American literatureAfrican American authors
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230608870

African American literature and the classicist traditionBlack women writers from Wheatley to Morrison /
Walters, Tracey Lorraine.

African American literature and the classicist traditionBlack women writers from Wheatley to Morrison /[electronic resource] :Tracey L. Walters. - 1st ed. - New York :Palgrave MacMillan,2007. - 197 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-194) and index.

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.

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 andnineteenth 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 socialmyths that disempower and devalue Black womanhood. Throughtheir 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 theirsubjects as well as themselves.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230608870

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230608870doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

350077
American literature
--African American authorsIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PS153.N5 / W335 2007eb

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/9287096

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