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21st Century Black Beauty Resistance: Collectivism, Individuality, and In/Visibility in Black Women's Writing
21st Century Black Beauty Resistance: Collectivism, Individuality, and In/Visibility in Black Women's Writing
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202105659
- ISBN
- 9798263307561
- DDC
- 818
- 서명/저자
- 21st Century Black Beauty Resistance: Collectivism, Individuality, and In/Visibility in Black Womens Writing
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 203 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-05, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Reynolds, Felisa.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약What does it mean to think beyond white supremacy, to consider its limits, to transcend them? How do Black women-centered gazes illuminate its borders and unseat it? I respond to these questions by examining the experiences and perspectives of Black women via representations of their bodies and hair in Francophone autobiographical, sociocultural, and literary texts written by 21st century Black women. Building upon the legacies of post-colonial, critical race, and afropessimist theory, I look beyond how they survive everyday traumas of the white male gaze and historical traumas of slavery and colonialism to consider how they exercise power, self-determination, and self-definition. My work looks specifically at representations of Black bodies and hair with sustained attention to the relationship(s) between collectivism, individuality, and in/visibility therein to elucidate the conceptual attributes of Black women-centered gazes and its power. It is the objective of my dissertation to bring light to the possibility of Black presents and futures that are not constructed under the white gaze, and that surpass the bounds of white supremacy by showcasing the power of a Black women-centered gaze to reify those bounds as they realize new worlds. While my focus is on Black women in the hexagonal French context, this work has implications for a global Diasporic community in the aftermaths of colonialism, the transatlantic slave trade, and chattel slavery. I argue that within the autobiographical, sociocultural, and literary texts I examine, Black women-centered gazes are making the world beyond the hegemonic forces of the white male gaze and white supremacy and creating space there for the fullness of Black beauty, Black creativity, Black joy, Black freedom, and ultimately, Black life. The first two chapters, "Individuating the Collective Body," and "Styling, Shame, Disalienation, and Apolitics of Hair," analyze three autobiographical/sociocultural texts: Afrofem, authored in 2018 by the Mwasi Collectif Afrofeministe, and Noire n'est pas mon metier, published in 2018 by a group of Black French actresses, and Trop noire pour etre francaise, an autobiographical text by Ivorian-born Black French screenwriter and director, Isabelle Boni-Claverie. In these texts, I consider the themes of collective resistance to violence and the ungendering of Black French women's bodies, corporeal performance of belonging and individuality, the bodily inscription of celebration of Diasporic connectedness, as well as Christina Sharpe's notion of Black redaction as resistance against corporeal and aesthetic devaluation. I employ the scholarship of Shirley Tate and Juliette Smeralda to tease out the relationship between hair choice and social in/visibility, alongside the external and internal political inscription of hair choice as it relates to the white male gaze and Black women-centered gazes. I claim that the positive recognition of variability in Black beauty aesthetics related to hair decenters whiteness as the norm from which to be different. I also note these authors' creation of space for the apolitics of hair where the "depoliticizing" of hair choice disregards whiteness as an icon to which Blackness must respond. In the third and final chapter, "Aesthetics and Corporeality in Black French Women's Fiction," I analyze both the representations of Black women's hair and body in two literary texts: Laura Nsafou's 2018 novel, A mains nues, and Leonora Miano's 2010 novel, Blues pour Elise. These texts foregrounds dynamics of power at the intersections of race, gender, and class, and semiotic relationships between aesthetics, corporeality, horizontal connectedness, and self-determination. In this chapter, I argue that the aforementioned conceptual attributes and functional strategies of Black women-centered gazes demonstrated by my analyses in the first two chapters are no less present in the narrative worlds created by these authors, and that these spaces of creative expression both connect and distinguish Black women while depicting ontological possibilities beyond the limits of white supremacy.
- 일반주제명
- Romance literature
- 일반주제명
- Womens studies
- 일반주제명
- Black studies
- 일반주제명
- African American studies
- 일반주제명
- Black history
- 키워드
- Black women
- 키워드
- Black French
- 키워드
- Blackness
- 키워드
- Collectivism
- 키워드
- Individuality
- 키워드
- Corporeality
- 키워드
- Black bodies
- 키워드
- Black hair
- 기타저자
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign French and Italian
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-05A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■520 ▼aWhat does it mean to think beyond white supremacy, to consider its limits, to transcend them? How do Black women-centered gazes illuminate its borders and unseat it? I respond to these questions by examining the experiences and perspectives of Black women via representations of their bodies and hair in Francophone autobiographical, sociocultural, and literary texts written by 21st century Black women. Building upon the legacies of post-colonial, critical race, and afropessimist theory, I look beyond how they survive everyday traumas of the white male gaze and historical traumas of slavery and colonialism to consider how they exercise power, self-determination, and self-definition. My work looks specifically at representations of Black bodies and hair with sustained attention to the relationship(s) between collectivism, individuality, and in/visibility therein to elucidate the conceptual attributes of Black women-centered gazes and its power. It is the objective of my dissertation to bring light to the possibility of Black presents and futures that are not constructed under the white gaze, and that surpass the bounds of white supremacy by showcasing the power of a Black women-centered gaze to reify those bounds as they realize new worlds. While my focus is on Black women in the hexagonal French context, this work has implications for a global Diasporic community in the aftermaths of colonialism, the transatlantic slave trade, and chattel slavery. I argue that within the autobiographical, sociocultural, and literary texts I examine, Black women-centered gazes are making the world beyond the hegemonic forces of the white male gaze and white supremacy and creating space there for the fullness of Black beauty, Black creativity, Black joy, Black freedom, and ultimately, Black life. The first two chapters, "Individuating the Collective Body," and "Styling, Shame, Disalienation, and Apolitics of Hair," analyze three autobiographical/sociocultural texts: Afrofem, authored in 2018 by the Mwasi Collectif Afrofeministe, and Noire n'est pas mon metier, published in 2018 by a group of Black French actresses, and Trop noire pour etre francaise, an autobiographical text by Ivorian-born Black French screenwriter and director, Isabelle Boni-Claverie. In these texts, I consider the themes of collective resistance to violence and the ungendering of Black French women's bodies, corporeal performance of belonging and individuality, the bodily inscription of celebration of Diasporic connectedness, as well as Christina Sharpe's notion of Black redaction as resistance against corporeal and aesthetic devaluation. I employ the scholarship of Shirley Tate and Juliette Smeralda to tease out the relationship between hair choice and social in/visibility, alongside the external and internal political inscription of hair choice as it relates to the white male gaze and Black women-centered gazes. I claim that the positive recognition of variability in Black beauty aesthetics related to hair decenters whiteness as the norm from which to be different. I also note these authors' creation of space for the apolitics of hair where the "depoliticizing" of hair choice disregards whiteness as an icon to which Blackness must respond. In the third and final chapter, "Aesthetics and Corporeality in Black French Women's Fiction," I analyze both the representations of Black women's hair and body in two literary texts: Laura Nsafou's 2018 novel, A mains nues, and Leonora Miano's 2010 novel, Blues pour Elise. These texts foregrounds dynamics of power at the intersections of race, gender, and class, and semiotic relationships between aesthetics, corporeality, horizontal connectedness, and self-determination. In this chapter, I argue that the aforementioned conceptual attributes and functional strategies of Black women-centered gazes demonstrated by my analyses in the first two chapters are no less present in the narrative worlds created by these authors, and that these spaces of creative expression both connect and distinguish Black women while depicting ontological possibilities beyond the limits of white supremacy.
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■650 4▼aAfrican American studies
■650 4▼aBlack history
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■653 ▼aBlack French
■653 ▼aBlackness
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■653 ▼aIndividuality
■653 ▼aCorporeality
■653 ▼aBlack bodies
■653 ▼aBlack hair
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