Bibliograph

Sacred femininity and the politcs of affect in african american women's fiction, Vicent Cucarella Ramon

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Sacred femininity and the politcs of affect in african american women's fiction, Vicent Cucarella Ramon

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sacred femininity and the politcs of affect in african american women's fiction

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Vicent Cucarella Ramon

Series statement

Biblioteca Javier Coy d'estudis nord-americans

Summary

This book presents the way in which African American women writers (Hannah Crafts, Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison) have followed the spiritual endeavor of black Christianity as created by early nineteenth-century spiritual narratives to construct a sacred reading of the black female self. The sacred femininity that puts the ethics and aesthetics of African American women at the center of a certain mode of (African) Americanness relies on a view of spirituality that joins women ontologically and validates affective modes of representation as an innovative means to obtain social and personal empowerment

Target audience

adult

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