Reconfigurations of the Bildungsroman : Taking Refuge from Violence in Kincaid, Danticat, hooks, and Morrison /
Cholant, Gonçalo
Reconfigurations of the Bildungsroman : Taking Refuge from Violence in Kincaid, Danticat, hooks, and Morrison / Gonçalo Cholant. - 1 online resource (XII, 296 p.) - American Frictions , 2 2698-5349 ; .
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From Intersectionality to an Ecology of Knowledges – The Knowledges of Literature -- 3 Danticat and Kincaid -- 4 Morrison and hooks -- 5 Conclusion -- 6 Works Cited -- Index
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The present work deals with the representation of trauma and violence in coming-of-age stories written by African-American and Afro-Caribbean women authors in the United States. The kinds of violence explored in this work are related to the post-colonial condition the women protagonists experience, in which racism, sexism, classism, among other kinds of discrimination, are co-created in an intersectional experience of oppression. The titles analyzed in this work are: Lucy (1990), written by Jamaica Kincaid; Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), written by Edwidge Danticat; Bone Black – Memories of Girlhood (1996), written by bell hooks; and God Help the Child (2015), written by Toni Morrison. The Bildungsroman genre serves as the form with which the authors are able to display the different forms of violence experienced during the the process of growing up female and black in the United States, and also in the Caribbean islands of Antigua and Haiti, in the cases of Kincaid and Danticat respectively. The coming-of-age stories written by women, and more specifically by African-American and Afro-Caribbean women, tend to showcase narratives in which the tensions between the protagonists' self-determination and the influence of social and cultural factors in their development opportunities are negotiated. The genre is adapted and subverted by the authors, deviating from its canonical European origins, becoming a site in which the authors are able to represent different kinds of violence, and the subsequent traumatic consequences caused by it.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783110752564 9783110752847 9783110752755
10.1515/9783110752755 doi
African American women in literature.
American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.
American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.
Bildungsromans, American--History and criticism.
Caribbean literature (English)--Black authors--History and criticism.
Caribbean literature (English)--History and criticism.
Caribbean literature (English)--Women authors--History and criticism.
Race in literature.
Women, Black--Violence against--In literature.
Women, Black, in literature.
USA.
SCIENCE / General.
813.5409
Reconfigurations of the Bildungsroman : Taking Refuge from Violence in Kincaid, Danticat, hooks, and Morrison / Gonçalo Cholant. - 1 online resource (XII, 296 p.) - American Frictions , 2 2698-5349 ; .
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From Intersectionality to an Ecology of Knowledges – The Knowledges of Literature -- 3 Danticat and Kincaid -- 4 Morrison and hooks -- 5 Conclusion -- 6 Works Cited -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
The present work deals with the representation of trauma and violence in coming-of-age stories written by African-American and Afro-Caribbean women authors in the United States. The kinds of violence explored in this work are related to the post-colonial condition the women protagonists experience, in which racism, sexism, classism, among other kinds of discrimination, are co-created in an intersectional experience of oppression. The titles analyzed in this work are: Lucy (1990), written by Jamaica Kincaid; Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), written by Edwidge Danticat; Bone Black – Memories of Girlhood (1996), written by bell hooks; and God Help the Child (2015), written by Toni Morrison. The Bildungsroman genre serves as the form with which the authors are able to display the different forms of violence experienced during the the process of growing up female and black in the United States, and also in the Caribbean islands of Antigua and Haiti, in the cases of Kincaid and Danticat respectively. The coming-of-age stories written by women, and more specifically by African-American and Afro-Caribbean women, tend to showcase narratives in which the tensions between the protagonists' self-determination and the influence of social and cultural factors in their development opportunities are negotiated. The genre is adapted and subverted by the authors, deviating from its canonical European origins, becoming a site in which the authors are able to represent different kinds of violence, and the subsequent traumatic consequences caused by it.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783110752564 9783110752847 9783110752755
10.1515/9783110752755 doi
African American women in literature.
American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.
American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.
Bildungsromans, American--History and criticism.
Caribbean literature (English)--Black authors--History and criticism.
Caribbean literature (English)--History and criticism.
Caribbean literature (English)--Women authors--History and criticism.
Race in literature.
Women, Black--Violence against--In literature.
Women, Black, in literature.
USA.
SCIENCE / General.
813.5409