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Reames, Kelly Lynch.

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"Mockeries of separations": African American and white women's relationships in contemporary United States writing.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"Mockeries of separations": African American and white women's relationships in contemporary United States writing./
Author:	Reames, Kelly Lynch.
Description:	219 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-04, Section: A, page: 1408.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International61-04A.
Subject:	Literature, American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9968656
ISBN:	0599734868

"Mockeries of separations": African American and white women's relationships in contemporary United States writing.
Reames, Kelly Lynch.

"Mockeries of separations": African American and white women's relationships in contemporary United States writing. - 219 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-04, Section: A, page: 1408.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000.

This study analyzes relationships between African American and white women in contemporary autobiography and fiction by Lillian Hellman, Audre Lorde, William Faulkner, Kaye Gibbons, Toni Morrison, and Elizabeth Cox. Theories of interracial reading contextualize the literary works within the historical construction of these relationships in the United States and the problems of racism in the feminist movement. The racial dynamics within the texts I examine interrogate racialized and gendered notions of American identity. I argue that Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun, while establishing that women's strategies for feminist resistance are circumscribed by both race and class, nevertheless suggests that the connection of women across differences has the potential to counteract disciplinary social narratives. While Lillian Hellman's An Unfinished Woman and Pentimento reveal that she romanticizes black women as sources of nurture and authority, the memoirs also show that her relationships with the two black women domestics who played important roles in her life challenged her assumptions and made her confront her own racism. Audre Lorde, in The Cancer Journals and Zami, exposes racism in the feminist movement and uses narrative strategies to reconfigure race relations by overturning the primacy of racial concepts of identity and emphasizing the interconnectedness of all oppressions. I read Kaye Gibbons's Ellen Foster as an analysis of the detrimental effects of whiteness on southern women and the racism inherent in aspiring to middle-class values. Like Ellen Foster, Elizabeth Cox's Night Talk also makes an interracial friendship central to the white adolescent protagonist's development, thereby suggesting that white women must overcome their own racism in order to form coherent subjectivities. Toni Morrison's short story "Recitatif" evokes readers' racial assumptions by making racial difference a point of conflict between the two main characters without identifying which woman is white and which is black. The ambiguity foregrounds the conflation of racial and class markers, as does the role of the white indentured servant Amy Denver in Beloved. The Morrison chapter, then, returns to the emphasis on economic class and historical patterns of race relations established in the Faulkner chapter.

ISBN: 0599734868Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017657
Literature, American.

"Mockeries of separations": African American and white women's relationships in contemporary United States writing.
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