Subversion of Northern Racist Ideology in Harriet E. Wilson’s Our Nig: Sketches From the Life of a Free Black

Koçsoy, F. Gül

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“…The name Nig may not have had any implications on her, but the abuses that follow indicate that being of such a colour, has its negative appeal. According to Kocsoy (2013Kocsoy ( :1258, the title of the novel signifies racism and not affection. The dualities in the title and descriptive subtitle are evident as the words are juxtaposed to create the dualities of Nig/ Free Black, Free Black/ White house and North/ Slavery"s Shadows.…”

Section: The Role Of Society In Race and Abjectionmentioning

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Examining mothering: Race and abjection in Wilson’s Our Nig and Walker’s The Color Purple

Amissah-Arthur¹

2021

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The end of slavery sought to grant freedom to Blacks. However, a plethora of African-American novels portray different impressions that this perception of freedom is not as entailed as should be. African-American women writers have subtly and bluntly, portrayed how the African-American mother characters in their novels deal with segregation and abjection as freed women in the society. Employing the Race theory, this paper focuses on mothering as a unique and complex practice of motherhood that empowers the African-American woman and as a non-patriarchal experience in Walker‟s The Color Purple and Wilson‟s Our Nig. The paper concludes that Walker and Wilson‟s novels analysed in this paper are hinged on race and abjection through the mother characters as well as thematic issues discussed in the study. This paper also has implications for African-American studies.

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Section: The Role Of Society In Race and Abjectionmentioning

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Examining mothering: Race and abjection in Wilson’s Our Nig and Walker’s The Color Purple

Amissah-Arthur¹

2021

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“…Moreover, when something went wrong in dairying, farming or the domestic world, they were suspected of witchery. Therefore, it may be claimed that witch hunting helped to reinforce the social, economic and political status of Britain by extending the authority of the patriarchy "to justify its 'rights' that are not articulated and recognized easily" (Koçsoy, 2013(Koçsoy, ,1257.…”

Section: Witch Hunting and Women's Oppression In The Seventeenth-centmentioning

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Women From Witch Hunting in the Seventeenth-Century to the Twentieth Century: A Socialist Feminist Criticism of Churchill S Vinegar Tom

Ayyıldız¹

2018

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As a socialist feminist dramatist of the 20 th century, Caryl Churchill draws attention to women's oppression through Vinegar Tom in which she experiments Brechtian theatrical techniques. She shifts in time, from the past to the present, to illuminate the historical context of women's oppression. She combines successfully witch hunting of the seventeenth century because of which many women were executed and social economic conditions of women in the 1970s. The aim of the study is to provide a socialist feminist criticism of Caryl Churchill's Vinegar Tom. First of all, the study gives background information about how women were oppressed under the cover of witch hunting in Britain in the seventeenth century. Then, it focuses on their ongoing tough life conditions in the twentieth-century. It also presents socialist feminist views which sought to shed light upon the influence of capitalism in reinforcing the patriarchal oppression over women at those times. After that, the study examines Churchill's Vinegar Tom as an example of socialist feminist drama. It reveals that Churchill indicates the role of institutions, men and submissive women in legitimising and perpetuating the patriarchal oppression over women to maintain the social, economic and political status quo of Britain for centuries.

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Subversion of Northern Racist Ideology in Harriet E. Wilson’s Our Nig: Sketches From the Life of a Free Black

Cited by 2 publications

References 9 publications

Examining mothering: Race and abjection in Wilson’s Our Nig and Walker’s The Color Purple

Examining mothering: Race and abjection in Wilson’s Our Nig and Walker’s The Color Purple

Women From Witch Hunting in the Seventeenth-Century to the Twentieth Century: A Socialist Feminist Criticism of Churchill S Vinegar Tom

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