Womanish Girls and Black Girl Vulnerability in African American Women's Cultural Productions: 1970-2005- [electronic resource]
Womanish Girls and Black Girl Vulnerability in African American Women's Cultural Productions: 1970-2005- [electronic resource]
- 자료유형
- 학위논문파일 국외
- 최종처리일시
- 20240214100101
- ISBN
- 9798379753474
- DDC
- 305
- 서명/저자
- Womanish Girls and Black Girl Vulnerability in African American Womens Cultural Productions: 1970-2005 - [electronic resource]
- 발행사항
- [S.l.]: : University of Pennsylvania., 2023
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,, 2023
- 형태사항
- 1 online resource(211 p.)
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-12, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Crawford, Margo N.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2023.
- 사용제한주기
- This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation argues that African American girls' displacement from normative standards of American childhood makes possible creative representations of African American girls that unsettle the fallacy of innocence. I consider displacement from Western childhood as something other than a loss, and I center what I characterize as resourceful vulnerability. By "the fallacy of innocence," I describe two related but distinct notions: first, distance from whatever might be considered politically controversial or morally complicated, and second, non-sexual character. Focusing on novels, photography, and selected archival materials produced between 1970-2005, my methodology puts close reading in dialogue with queer and Black feminist theorists. I write after Habiba Ibrahim's concept of Black age, and Hortense Spillers's concept of ungendering. I argue these concepts inform African American gender performance as it relates to innocence. Contributing to conversations in Black girlhood studies and queer theory as well as African American literary studies and visual culture, my project highlights that African American girls' vulnerability can be resourceful in ways that are intraculturally significant.
- 일반주제명
- Literature.
- 일반주제명
- Womens studies.
- 키워드
- Black girlhood
- 키워드
- Black women
- 키워드
- Innocence
- 키워드
- Shange, Ntosake
- 키워드
- Morrison, Tori
- 키워드
- Womanish
- 기타저자
- University of Pennsylvania English
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 84-12A.
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertation Abstract International
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