Susana M. Morris 
Close Kin and Distant Relatives [EPUB ebook] 
The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women’s Literature

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The ‘black family’ in the United States and the Caribbean often holds contradictory and competing meanings in public discourse: on the one hand, it is a site of love, strength, and support; on the other hand, it is a site of pathology, brokenness, and dysfunction that has frequently called forth an emphasis on conventional respectability if stability and social approval are to be achieved. Looking at the ways in which contemporary African American and black Caribbean women writers conceptualize the black family, Susana Morris finds a discernible tradition that challenges the politics of respectability by arguing that it obfuscates the problematic nature of conventional understandings of family and has damaging effects as a survival strategy for blacks.

The author draws on African American studies, black feminist theory, cultural studies, and women’s studies to examine the work of Paule Marshall, Jamaica Kincaid, Edwidge Danticat, and Sapphire, showing how their novels engage the connection between respectability and ambivalence. These writers advocate instead for a transgressive understanding of affinity and propose an ethic of community support and accountability that calls for mutual affection, affirmation, loyalty, and respect. At the core of these transgressive family systems, Morris reveals, is a connection to African diasporic cultural rites such as dance, storytelling, and music that help the fictional characters to establish familial connections.


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Susana M. Morris is Associate Professor of English at Auburn University.

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Limba Engleză ● Format EPUB ● Pagini 192 ● ISBN 9780813935515 ● Mărime fișier 0.4 MB ● Editura University of Virginia Press ● Oraș Charlottesville ● Țară US ● Publicat 2014 ● Descărcabil 24 luni ● Valută EUR ● ID 3066816 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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