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The study examines the fiction of Black Women’s Renaissance. It focuses on the novels of the 1980s, which appreciated “culture-bearing” mothers as reproducers of the nation, to analyze the vexed relationship between cultural nationalism and feminism. It argues that the BWR created “matrifocal” natio...
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oapen-20.500.12657-594642022-11-22T03:26:12Z Culture-bearing Women Penier, Izabella Black Women Renaissance Black Nationalism Womanism bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general The study examines the fiction of Black Women’s Renaissance. It focuses on the novels of the 1980s, which appreciated “culture-bearing” mothers as reproducers of the nation, to analyze the vexed relationship between cultural nationalism and feminism. It argues that the BWR created “matrifocal” nationalism that made black women principal agents of national identity, but also promoted gender essentialism at the expense of social and economic issues. 2022-11-21T16:33:02Z 2022-11-21T16:33:02Z 2019 book ONIX_20221121_9788395609558_19 9788395609558 9788395609541 9788395609565 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/59464 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9788395609558.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9788395609558 De Gruyter De Gruyter Open Poland 10.1515/9788395609558 10.1515/9788395609558 2b386f62-fc18-4108-bcf1-ade3ed4cf2f3 178e65b9-dd53-4922-b85c-0aaa74fce079 9788395609558 9788395609541 9788395609565 European Research Council (ERC) De Gruyter Open Poland 220 Berlin/Boston 706741 H2020 European Research Council H2020 Excellent Science - European Research Council open access |
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The study examines the fiction of Black Women’s Renaissance. It focuses on the novels of the 1980s, which appreciated “culture-bearing” mothers as reproducers of the nation, to analyze the vexed relationship between cultural nationalism and feminism. It argues that the BWR created “matrifocal” nationalism that made black women principal agents of national identity, but also promoted gender essentialism at the expense of social and economic issues. |
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