Journal Title: International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies (IJHCS) - Year 2014, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
This paper attempts to read Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place as an expression of the heterogeneity of the black women’s experiences. Published in 1982, the novel anticipates the focus on the diversity of women’s lives and the women of colour, that were to become the defining features of third wave feminism. The text subverts the traditional notions of black identity by portraying African-American women as a diversified and divided community, even as it interrogates the very notion of blackness. Through the various lines along which the community is divided emerges a nuanced image of the black community in which blackness is an ontological category, not to be tied down to ugly, beautiful or any other specifics.
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Pooja Kukreja| University of Delhi, India
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