Thinking Back Through the Mother: The Poetics of Place and the Mother/Daughter Dyad in Brown Girl, Brownstones
The author asserts that African-American feminist author Paule Marshall's works contradict mainstream feminist perspectives of literary works, which focus on matrophobic theoretical frameworks. This article evaluates the portrayal of black mothers and the perception of them by their daughters;...
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| Published in | The Black scholar Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 34 - 40 |
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| Abstract | The author asserts that African-American feminist author Paule Marshall's works contradict mainstream feminist perspectives of literary works, which focus on matrophobic theoretical frameworks. This article evaluates the portrayal of black mothers and the perception of them by their daughters; the relationships between black mothers and daughters are seen as loving, if antagonistic and problematic, yet central to the creation of the daughter's self. |
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| AbstractList | McGill discusses "Brown Girls, Brownstones," by Paule Marshall, describing how Marshall employs a womanist perspective embedded in sisterhood that celebrates a connection to American mothers. The black American mother/daughter dyad in her fiction is presented as antagonistic yet loving. The author asserts that African-American feminist author Paule Marshall's works contradict mainstream feminist perspectives of literary works, which focus on matrophobic theoretical frameworks. This article evaluates the portrayal of black mothers and the perception of them by their daughters; the relationships between black mothers and daughters are seen as loving, if antagonistic and problematic, yet central to the creation of the daughter's self. |
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