The Body of the Mother in Contemporary Black Women Narratives: (Re)Writing immanence towards transcendence

Autores

  • Cristina M. T. Stevens Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2015v68n2p93

Resumo

Articulating class, gender and race issues, we analyze black motherhood in novels by contemporary black women writers, the harsh reality of this experience under slavery, colonization and its consequences in contemporary society. hey expose the bodily aspects of labor, in deep contrast with the patriarchal, idealized images of western motherhood; in doing so, however, they reject its characterization as a purely immanent process which deines and entraps women’s body in utterly distorted, essentialist terms.

Biografia do Autor

Cristina M. T. Stevens, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Doutora em Estudos Linguísticos e Literários em Inglês pela Universidade de São Paulo (1987). Pós-doutorado: Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies - Leeds University/UK (2003). Pesquisadora Colaboradora da Universidade de Brasília (UnB). Coordenadora do Grupo de Pesquisa VOZES FEMINIAS (www.vozesfemininas.com.br). Coordenou o GT/ANPOLL “A Mulher na Literatura” (biênio 2010/12).

Publicado

2015-01-21