東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

The re -visioning of goddesses: Revi...

Momplaisir, Francesca M.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

The re -visioning of goddesses: Revisionist poetics in African diaspora women writers' re -creations of black women characters from black male -authored canonical texts.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The re -visioning of goddesses: Revisionist poetics in African diaspora women writers' re -creations of black women characters from black male -authored canonical texts./
Author:	Momplaisir, Francesca M.
Description:	369 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-03, Section: A, page: 9220.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-03A.
Subject:	Comparative literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3127473
ISBN:	9780496747375

The re -visioning of goddesses: Revisionist poetics in African diaspora women writers' re -creations of black women characters from black male -authored canonical texts.
Momplaisir, Francesca M.

The re -visioning of goddesses: Revisionist poetics in African diaspora women writers' re -creations of black women characters from black male -authored canonical texts. - 369 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-03, Section: A, page: 9220.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2004.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

In this study examining thematological theories of revision in novels by African, African-American and Caribbean women writers, I argue that Toni Morrison, Cynthia James, Mariama Ba, Gloria Naylor and Alice Walker go beyond revision to re-visualizing underdeveloped female characters in black male-authored canonical texts. Through inter-textuality and gendered "signifyin'(g)," the African Diaspora women authors examined provide a sacred space for their characters, dedicating entire novels to their plight rather than the paucity of pages to which they were previously confined. More than raising the characters from bas-reliefs to three-dimensional sculptures, they deliver living, breathing, speaking and undeniably visible entities; broadening motifs into themes, actions into situations, types into characters, traits into complex personalities, and topos into discourse.

ISBN: 9780496747375Subjects--Topical Terms:

570001
Comparative literature.

The re -visioning of goddesses: Revisionist poetics in African diaspora women writers' re -creations of black women characters from black male -authored canonical texts.
LDR:03627nmm a2200325 4500 001 2065432
005 20151205151948.5
008 170521s2004 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9780496747375
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI3127473
035 $a AAI3127473
040 $a MiAaPQ $c MiAaPQ
100 1 $a Momplaisir, Francesca M. $3 3180130
245 1 4 $a The re -visioning of goddesses: Revisionist poetics in African diaspora women writers' re -creations of black women characters from black male -authored canonical texts.
300 $a 369 p.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-03, Section: A, page: 9220.
500 $a Adviser: Manthia Diawara.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2004.
506 $a This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
520 $a In this study examining thematological theories of revision in novels by African, African-American and Caribbean women writers, I argue that Toni Morrison, Cynthia James, Mariama Ba, Gloria Naylor and Alice Walker go beyond revision to re-visualizing underdeveloped female characters in black male-authored canonical texts. Through inter-textuality and gendered "signifyin'(g)," the African Diaspora women authors examined provide a sacred space for their characters, dedicating entire novels to their plight rather than the paucity of pages to which they were previously confined. More than raising the characters from bas-reliefs to three-dimensional sculptures, they deliver living, breathing, speaking and undeniably visible entities; broadening motifs into themes, actions into situations, types into characters, traits into complex personalities, and topos into discourse.
520 $a Morrison's The Bluest Eye is read as a revisualization of the incestuously violated Matty Lou in the Trueblood episode of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. In her short-story "Soothe Me, Music, Soothe Me" James de-romanticizes the Calypso in Earl Lovelace's The Dragon Can't Dance by giving voice to a rape victim within Trinidadian Carnival. The co-wives in Ousmane Sembene's Xala are rewritten in Ba's So Long A Letter, focusing on their subjugation in polygamous marriages while examining the political impotence of the post-colonial African bourgeoisie. The poetically inscribed and fetishized women in Jean Toomer's Cane are overtly re-figured as prostitutes in Naylor's Bailey's Cafe. Supporting Western feminist arguments against female circumcision, Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy reveals her problematized social position as she revises Ngugi's The River Between.
520 $a The African Diaspora women authors analyzed insist on an examination of the complexity of black women with often compromised, integrated or homogenized identities as they explore and define their positionality as warriors against and survivors of oppression globally. By carrying their black female characters beyond the confines of stereotypes and the, at times, unintentional neglect or even erasure enacted by black male authors, these women authors are engaged in the invention of multidimensional protagonists in polyphonic counter-narratives. Without ignoring the black woman writer's originality and creative longitude, I conclude that the rescuing revisualizations of black female characters are necessary corrective efforts by exquisitely cunning cannibals.
590 $a School code: 0146.
650 4 $a Comparative literature. $3 570001
650 4 $a African literature. $3 1973478
650 4 $a Caribbean literature. $3 3173897
690 $a 0295
690 $a 0316
690 $a 0360
710 2 $a New York University. $3 515735
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 65-03A.
790 $a 0146
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2004
793 $a English
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3127473