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Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature

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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 characters as strong is problematic in African American literature, and this pattern has become so pronounced that it has stifled the literature.

Language: English

Pages: 218

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

Release: February 18, 2002

ISBN: 0312293003

ISBN 13: 9780312293000

Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature

4.3/5 ( ratings)

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 characters as strong is problematic in African American literature, and this pattern has become so pronounced that it has stifled the literature.

Language: English

Pages: 218

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

Release: February 18, 2002

ISBN: 0312293003

ISBN 13: 9780312293000

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The Selected Works

Reading Contemporary African American Drama: Fragments of History, Fragments of Self

Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls: Watch It!

Reading Contemporary African American Drama: Fragments of History, Fragments of Self (African-American Literature and Culture)

DLB 76: Afro-American Writers, 1940-1955 (Dictionary of Literary Biography, 76)

Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940 (Dictionary of Literary Biography)

South of Tradition: Essays on African American Literature

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