African Women's Legacy: Ambiguity, Autonomy, and Empowerment

Moss, Barbara A.

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“…African American women are often found to be psychologically ''strong'' (e.g., Greene, 1994, Moss, 1995Napholz, 1994) in the face of multiple oppressions tied to race, sex, and class. Unlike the history of most Caucasian women in the United States, from slavery on, many African American women have had to be ünancially self-reliant and, particularly in the latter twentieth century, African American women often have been the primary provider for their children (Billingsley, 1992).…”

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Self in Community: African American Women's Views of Self-Esteem

DeFrancisco¹,

Chatham‐Carpenter²

2000

Howard Journal of Communications

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Self in Community: African American Women's Views of Self-Esteem

DeFrancisco¹,

Chatham‐Carpenter²

2000

Howard Journal of Communications

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“…In other words, the mammy is not merely an invention of white Americans; she is a distorted and reductive caricature of variegated depictions of maternal power and authority, which originated in black American incorporations and revisions of African traditions. Teresa Washington, Barbara Moss, and Christian (30) are a few critics who have discussed the survival of African maternal traditions among black American women in both the antebellum and postbellum South, 7 but W. E. B. Du Bois’s renowned and controversial 1920 article “The Damnation of Women” contains some of the most germane commentaries on the links between maternity and African cultures writ large.…”

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Annie and Mammy: An Intersectional Reading of Stephen King’sMisery

Phipps¹

2021

The J of Popular Culture

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UBLISHED IN 1987, STEPHEN KING'S MISERY IS A "GRUESOME SUSpense novel" (King, "Why" xi) in which a psychopathic former nurse named Annie Wilkes holds author Paul Sheldon captive in her home following his near-fatal road accident. In a departure from King's previous horror fiction, the monster in Misery is not a supernatural force or a rabid beast but a "dangerously crazy" (9) woman. Misery essentially consists of two characters, a point scholars have seized upon to explore the constructions of gender and maternity in the novel, both of which emerge as prominent subjects in Paul's struggle against Annie. However, critics tend to approach the interaction between Annie and Paul in binary terms, seeing it as a showdown between rational masculinity and sadistic femininity. This article argues that such readings ignore the relevance of intersectionality to King's novel. Developed initially as a theory of black feminism, intersectionality maintains that societal groupings like race, gender, sexuality, and class are not separate from one another; rather, they form interrelated categories that knit together identity in multidimensional ways. Rejecting the tendency to treat sexism and racism in isolation, intersectionality argues that systems and conventions of persecution are always entangled and mutually reinforcing. Intersectionality has gained currency in studies of black feminism, but its implications remain underdeveloped in literary criticism, mainly due to the consistent refusal of critics to apply its ideas to non-African-American women authors. One of the purposes of this article is to open up new avenues for intersectionality by tracing its themes across a Stephen King novel. Read as an intersectional text, Misery presents

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African Women's Legacy: Ambiguity, Autonomy, and Empowerment

Cited by 2 publications

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Self in Community: African American Women's Views of Self-Esteem

Self in Community: African American Women's Views of Self-Esteem

Annie and Mammy: An Intersectional Reading of Stephen King’sMisery

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