Saints, Sinners, Saviors

Saints, Sinners, Saviors

Trudier Harris

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Springer Nature B.V.
Año de edición:
2015
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Literatura: historia y crítica
ISBN:
9780312293031
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Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature explores the idea of strength as a frequently contradictory and damaging trait for black women characters in major literary works of the 20th century. Looking at work by Hansberry, Morrison, Bambara, West, Gaines, Reed, and others, Trudier Harris shows how writers draw upon popular images of African American women in producing what they believe to be safe literary representations. She argues forcefully that the portrayal of women’s character as strong is problematic in African American literature, and this pattern has become so pronounced that it has stifled the literature.

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