Domestic Abuse in the Novels of African American Women: A Critical Study

ISBN-13: 9780786479566 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 188 str.

Heather Duerre Humann

Opis

The literary tradition begun by Zora Neale Hurston in the 1930s has since flourished and taken new directions with a diverse body of fiction by more contemporary African-American women writers. This book examines the treatment of domestic violence in Hurston s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Gayl Jones s Corregidora, Gloria Naylor s The Women of Brewster Place and Linden Hills, Alice Walker s The Color Purple, Toni Morrison s The Bluest Eye and Love, Terry McMillan s Mama and A Day Late and a Dollar Short, and Octavia Butler s Seed to Harvest. These novels have given voice to oppressed and abused women. The aims of this work are threefold: to examine how female African American novelists portray domestic abuse; to outline how literary depictions of domestic violence are responsive to cultural and historical forces; and to explore the literary tradition of novels that deal with domestic abuse within the African American community."