Artikel
In her own image : literary and visual representations of girlhood in Toni Morrison´s "The bluest eye" and Jamaica Kincaid´s "Annie John"
Verfasst von:
Vásquez, Sam
in:
Meridians
2014
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Heft:
1
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58 - 87 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Vásquez, Sam |
| In: | Meridians |
| Jahr: | 2014 |
| Heft: | 1 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Beschreibung: | |
| Despite striking similarities in their work and increased attention to the transnational Americas, there are few detailed comparisons between writers such as Toni Morrison (the most lauded African American female author of the twentieth century), and Jamaica Kincaid (the most critically and commercially successful female Caribbean writer). For example, the common approach to examining Morrison’s groundbreaking novel The Bluest Eye (1970) is to foreground its national significance, or, less frequently, to apply its discourses quite generally and loosely to other cultural contexts like Latin America. However, building on relatively recent attempts to locate Morrison in broader transnational spaces, which utilizes many of the strategies evident in Bluest —Kincaid’s Annie John (1985). By engaging the larger English-speaking Americas, such an approach highlights the transnational implications of the race and gender paradigms Morrison deploys; also, although Annie John is commonly categorized as primarily Caribbean (a precursor to Kincaid’s “American” sequel, Lucy [1990]). To that end,the author borrow from and expand on Cheryl Wall’s notion of “worrying the line” (Wall 2005)—black women writers’ emphasizing, clarification, and subversion of literary traditions—to examine how black women in different cultural contexts write themselves into visual and historical records. | |
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