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A womanist social protest tradition in twentieth century African-American literature: Fiction by Marita Bonner, Ann Petry, Dorothy West, and Gwendolyn Brooks.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A womanist social protest tradition in twentieth century African-American literature: Fiction by Marita Bonner, Ann Petry, Dorothy West, and Gwendolyn Brooks./
Author:	Childress, Paulette.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1998,
Description:	397 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 60-10, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International60-10A.
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9915642
ISBN:	9780599143654

A womanist social protest tradition in twentieth century African-American literature: Fiction by Marita Bonner, Ann Petry, Dorothy West, and Gwendolyn Brooks.
Childress, Paulette.

A womanist social protest tradition in twentieth century African-American literature: Fiction by Marita Bonner, Ann Petry, Dorothy West, and Gwendolyn Brooks. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1998 - 397 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 60-10, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Wayne State University, 1998.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Project examines twentieth century fiction by African American women writers Marita Bonner, Ann Petry, Dorothy West, and Gwendolyn Brooks as an underestimated parallel tradition of social protest writing to that of culturally dominant twentieth century black male authors. Discusses Bonner's short fiction, originally published between 1925 and 1941, collected and republished as Frye Street and Environs (1987); Petry's The Street (1946); West's The Living is Easy (1948); and Brooks's Maud Martha (1953). Considers how works protest social oppression, economic exploitation, and sexual victimization of black women in the urban North, with extensive examination of social and economic factors which contributed to common thematics in the work of these writers. This fiction is posited as womanist for its representation of gender, in addition to race and class, as a site of social contest, a thematic difference from black male protest fiction. A major premise is that authors reject mythological images of black women, inventing demythologized subjects for whom the domestic space of home and family is the site of women's empowerment. Explores the authors, depiction of intraracial colorism and classism, economic exploitation and sexual victimization of black women, and the impact of urban mass culture in black women's experience from the 1920s through early 1950s. Situates Bonner, Petry, West, and Brooks within a tradition of black women writing in protest of race-, class-, and sex-based oppression of working class black women in American society, bridging a marginal tradition begun in the nineteenth century and continuing into the present. Theoretical approaches are feminist and African American, with special attention to black feminist theory and criticism, which focus heavily on the social, political, and economic aspects of by black women's writing. Other general theoretical approaches include social historical and materialist or political.

ISBN: 9780599143654Subjects--Topical Terms:

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American literature.
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African-American

A womanist social protest tradition in twentieth century African-American literature: Fiction by Marita Bonner, Ann Petry, Dorothy West, and Gwendolyn Brooks.
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