| Abstrakt: |
The paper studies the origin and growth of black women's poetry. According to Lucius C Matlock (Bibb 1950), by the mid-nineteenth century, slavery had become the "most prolific theme of much that is profound in argument, sublime in poetry, and thrilling in narrative." Black women were treated as non-humans, thus excluding them from the feminist struggle; besides, they were also dominated by their own men and community. Nevertheless, the resilience of African American women poets is surprisingly remarkable. It can be said that black women's poetry has undergone a metamorphosis from its faith in the "power of poetic language" and has created a tradition of "egalitarian values" marked by the "diversity of voices." Nevertheless, black women have faced much more exclusion while having a discourse on race and gender. The expulsion of African American women was not only from the literary world but also from the mainstream society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
