Protesting Little Sister: Black Women's Sexual Politics, 1940-1953
- ISBN-10
- 0542920530
- ISBN-13
- 9780542920530
- Category
- Sex role
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Author
- Ayesha Ki'Shani Hardison
Description
Examining four icons of black womanhood---the predatory woman in Ann Petry's The Street (1941) and Dorothy West's The Living Is Easy (1948), the minstrel in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee (1948), the neurotic in Curtis Lucas' Third Ward Newark (1946), and the race woman in Gwendolyn Brooks' Maud Martha (1953) and the black press---I attempt to demonstrate how black women negotiate stereotypes of sexual promiscuity to achieve subjectivity through artistic performance, economic independence, and political activism. In deviations from the school of social realism (including the middle-class domestic novel, pulp fiction, and a white-plot text), each character tries to actualize a new model of black social protest by rejecting the supposed pathology of black female sexuality in her expression and repression of personal and political desire. Thus, black women articulate a discourse of "protesting subjectivity" in their revision, rejection, and negotiation of bourgeois ideals of black womanhood.
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