Common bonds from Africa to the U.S.: Africana Womanist literary analysis

This article will demonstrate a distinct link between the concerns of African and African-American women writers in the characters, themes, and women's issues and concerns that appear in their fiction, dramas, and essays. The specific response of Africana Women writers on the continent to the c...

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Published in:The Western journal of black studies 2001-09, Vol.25 (3), p.177-184
Main Author: Thompson, Betty Taylor
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African American literature
African American women authors
African American women writers
African Americans
African Culture
African literature
Afrocentrism
American literature
Black culture
Black identity
Black literature
Black people
Black women
Blacks
Colonialism
Cultural Background
Dangarembga, Tsitsi
Essays
Family Involvement
Females
Feminism
Fiction
Hurston, Zora Neale (1891-1960)
Literary criticism
Marriage
Marshall, Paule (1929-2019)
Morrison, Toni (1931-2019)
Mothers
Naylor, Gloria
Oral Tradition
Race identity
Racism
Senegalese literature
Sexism
Social aspects
Story Telling
Values
Women
Women, Black
Works
Writers
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Summary:This article will demonstrate a distinct link between the concerns of African and African-American women writers in the characters, themes, and women's issues and concerns that appear in their fiction, dramas, and essays. The specific response of Africana Women writers on the continent to the common concerns of Africana women are explored through the texts of Flora Nwapa of Nigeria, Mariama Ba of Sengal, and Tsitsi Dangarembga of Zimbabwe. Representing the African American women's writings are Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Beloved and Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe, all of which demonstrate strong Africana womanist concerns as outlined in Clenora Hudson-Weems' Africana Womanism: Reclaiming Ourselves (1993).
ISSN:0197-4327