GETTING OUT OF THE “VALLEY OF THIS WOEFUL LIFE”: BLACK FEMINIST DISCOURSE IN A MERCY

AuteurAZON, SENAKPON ADELPHE FORTUNE
Date d'ajout2026-06-02T16:06:57Z
Date de disponibilite2026-06-02T16:06:57Z
Date de publication2021
ResumeThis paper explores, throughA Mercy, Toni Morrison’spreoccupation with the black female condition inthe dawn of the American race-based slavery system, and the construction of a liberating feminist discourse. It revisits the negotiation of the power dynamics in the seventeenth-century America by positing that remembering and re-interpreting the past constitutes a royal way to shed light on the present. The memory of slavery from thefemale’s perspective also helps construct the discourse of black women’s liberation today. Using a black feminist interpretive frame, this research work analyzes, in the novel, the social struggles from the stance of the enslaved female thrown against the other social subjectivities in early America, for an advocacy of black females’condition. It thus purports to contribute to the liberation of black females in contemporary America.
Autre identifiantBECDB-15706
URIhttps://dspace.uac.bj/handle/123456789/13293
Languefr
Fait partie deRecherches africaines. Annales de l’Université des lettres et sciences humaines de Bamako
SujetKey-words: Black feminism – slavery – liberation – domination – discourse
TitreGETTING OUT OF THE “VALLEY OF THIS WOEFUL LIFE”: BLACK FEMINIST DISCOURSE IN A MERCY
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