scholarly journals Portrayal of Free Spirit in Adrienne Rich’s Aunt Jennifer’s Tiger and Alice Walker’s Meridian

HARIDRA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (01) ◽  
pp. 42-44
Author(s):  
Sharda Singh
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Toni Morrison ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Alice Walker ◽  
Male Dominance ◽  
Adrienne Rich ◽  
Maya Angelou ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Free Spirit

The works of women writers of USA have become increasingly visible in the academy especially since 1970s because of their active involvement in contemporary women’s movement. Writers like Toni Morrison and Alice Walker and poets like Maya Angelou and Adrienne Rich and others have been strongly greeted for their ideologies. Undoubtedly, their works echo strong resistance against racism, patriarchism and militarism. The present paper highlights the remedy of the various maladies like male dominance, subordinated identity and submissive life. It is said that ‘every action has reaction’ and these writers believe that ‘”FORTUNE FAVOURS THE BRAVE”. So they have depicted the undaunted spirits among their female protagonists who fought bravely against the odds and eventually emerged victorious.

scholarly journals TIMELESS PEOPLE IN AFRO-AMERICAN CULTURE: THE FEMALE ANCESTOR IN MAYA ANGELOU AND TONI MORRISON

2010 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mail Marques de Azevedo
Keyword(s):  
Toni Morrison ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Maya Angelou

Por meio de paralelos entre o tratamento da ancestral feminina - elemento-chave na preservação e transmissão da cultura negra tradicional - na autobiografia de Maya Angelou, I know why the caged bird sings e no romance Sula, de Toni Morrison, este trabalho observa como Morrison subverte estereótipos e convenções literárias a fim de estabelecer liâmes com as raízes ancestrais da cultura afro-americana, numa tentativa de preservar tradições ameaçadas.

scholarly journals TONY MORRISON AND ALICE WALKER’S LINGUISTIC IDENTITY AND SEMANTIC TRIGGERS (IN THE CONTEXT OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN IDENTITY)

2021 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-134
Author(s):  
B. Mamedova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Toni Morrison ◽  
Alice Walker ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Interesting Aspect ◽  
Linguistic Identity ◽  
African American Identity ◽  
Blue Eyes

The article is devoted to linguistic identity and semantic triggers, a rather interesting aspect of the linguistic identity of Tony Morrison and Alice Walker. The main purpose of of the research of linguistic identity by Toni Morrison and Alice Walker is to analyze of semantic trigger lexical units and expressions in their ideolect. Scientific novelty of the research is determined by studying the semantic trigger lexical units. Our analysis suggests that for T. Morrison and E. Walker, semantic triggers such as blue eyes, nigger, and coon provide a “transition” to scripts that are relevant to their African-American identity. Thus, both writers are carriers of individual linguistic identities, as well as symphonic (social, ethnic, social) linguistic identities, specifically African-American linguistic identities.

scholarly journals Sexuality and Healing in the African Diaspora: A Transnational Approach to Toni Morrison and Gyasi

Humanities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Mar Gallego
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
African American ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Toni Morrison ◽  
Black Body ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Enslaved Women ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
Identity And Agency ◽  
Black Bodies

This article examines the literary production of two writers from the African diaspora, specifically African American Toni Morrison’s A Mercy (2008), and Ghanaian-American Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing (2016), to explore their significance as counter-narratives that defy the “official” historiography of enslavement times in order to set the records straight, as it were. By highlighting these women writers’ project of resistance against normative definitions of black bodies, it is my contention that these works effectively mobilize notions of race, gender, and sexuality. Revisiting the harmful and denigrating legacy of stereotypical designation of enslaved women, these writers make significant political and literary interventions to facilitate the recovery, wholeness, and sanctity of the violated and abjected black body. In their attempt to counter ongoing processes of commodification, exploitation, fetishization, and sexualization, I argue that these writers chronicle new forms of identity and agency that promote individual and generational healing and care as forms of protest and resistance against toxic definitions of hegemonic gender and sexuality.

‘Not a Feminist, but …’: Elizabeth von Arnim and Female Resistance

2019 ◽  
pp. 99-114
Author(s):  
Alison Hennegan
Keyword(s):  
Women's Movement ◽  
Marital Rape ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Female Resistance ◽  
Male Control ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
The World ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Pastor's Wife

This essay explores von Arnim’s systematic representation of the ways in which her female characters encounter, come to understand, and often seek to challenge patterns of male control and suppression of girls and women. Focussing chiefly on Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther (1907), The Pastor’s Wife (1914), Expiation (1929) and Father (1931), the essay addresses male silencing of women, emotional manipulation, and various forms of sexual intimidation and violence (including marital rape), and analyses the growth of self-knowledge and resistance in von Arnim’s female protagonists. Although von Arnim’s characters show little, if any, awareness of the feminist debates and arguments swirling around them in the world beyond the narrow confines of their own lives, many of them eventually come to voice, and act upon, the emerging demands of the contemporary women’s movement. They may not be feminists, but. …

Cultivating Correspondences; or, Other Gestures of Belonging

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphane Robolin
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Toni Morrison ◽  
Alice Walker ◽  
Michelle Cliff ◽  
Letter Writing ◽  
Exemplary Practices ◽  
Transnational Engagement

Transnationalism is not the exclusive province of globe-trotting authors, but also includes the practices of those who could not access the means of transatlantic mobility. This chapter begins by considering Bessie Head's exilic life and her quest for belonging that motivated the grounded transnationalism she expressed. It then investigates one of its most exemplary practices: her letter writing, with particular attention to the set of letters between Head and her four African American correspondents: Nikki Giovanni, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Michelle Cliff. Some of their epistolary exchanges and writing published around the same period feature repeated references to gardens, whose political and imaginative implications are considered at length. The chapter concludes by framing the practice of letter writing as a form of cultivation that re-centers our attention on the labor that transnational engagement requires, even as it yields a whole spectrum of outcomes.

scholarly journals Em nome de Maya Angelou

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Felipe Fanuel Xavier Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Alice Walker ◽  
Maya Angelou

Resumo: Este artigo se propõe a reavaliar criticamente a segunda obra autobiográfica de Maya Angelou, Gather together in my name (2004 [1974]). Na representação literária de si, Angelou narra sua jornada de vida como uma jovem mulher negra com um filho sem pai, lutando para sobreviver com liberdade na sociedade estadunidense dos anos 1940, marcadamente racista e sexista. Uma leitura atenta à sinuosidade dos fragmentos narrativos revela que Angelou compõe uma variante de uma womanist prose, conforme Alice Walker (1983), identificada como poética de sua verdade autobiográfica, através da qual a escritora examina sua vida interior, incomoda concepções culturais preconcebidas da mulher de ascendência africana e corrige omissões desse sujeito histórico que se autorregenera.

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