Travel as Subversion in 19th Century Black Women’s Narratives

Autor:	Joyce Hope Scott
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	media_common.quotation_subject Agency (philosophy) Resistance (psychoanalysis) Gender studies Persona Race (biology) General Earth and Planetary Sciences Narrative Sociology Subversion Prejudice Liminality General Environmental Science media_common
Zdroj:	Advances in Literary Study. :105-121
ISSN:	2327-4050 2327-4034
DOI:	10.4236/als.2017.54009
Popis:	Race and gender proved to be two daunting obstacles for African American and Afro-Caribbean women in the 19th century; thus success outside those domains often depended on women’s ability to keep a strong feminist stance. Prescribed female roles and racial prejudice hindered many in their ambitions and endeavors. This paper argues that some 19th century black women’s narratives, however, point to a body of resistance texts in contention with prescribed roles for such women. The textual personas of such narratives transcend the confines of home and racially-configured communities. In fact, the narratives foreground a female agency where personal worth and identities are reconstructed through traveling and working in the global arenas and economies of the 19th century world.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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