Black Women's Selfhood in Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy

E. Lâle DEMİRTÜRK

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Black Women's Selfhood in Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy

Yazarlar:

E. Lâle DEMİRTÜRK

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 1995 Issue 2, pp.33-36

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

9/1995

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000735428

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İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606

Özet:

 

Alice Walker examines in her fiction the black women's search for selfhood  through an analysis of the individual's relationship to the community. In Walker's  novels, the black women's struggle to claim their selves, in order to change their  lives and secure a rightful place within the social network of relationships they  themselves constitute, usually absorbs the psychic pain involved in such a struggle  and shatters the iron bars of gender which limit self-empowerment. The author  herself explains: "I believe in ... a willing acceptance of responsibility for one's  thoughts, behavior and actions, that makes it powerful. The white man's oppression  of me will never excuse my oppression of you, whether you are man, woman, child  ... because the self I prize refuses to be owned by him. Or by anyone"  The Third  Life of Grange Copeland 345 .

Makale detayları

Black Women's Selfhood in Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy

Yazarlar: E. Lâle DEMİRTÜRK

Yayıncı: American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi: Journal of American Studies of Turkey 1995 Issue 2, pp.33-36

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 9/1995

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000735428

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

pISSN: 1300-6606

Sayı

Yazarlar:

E. Lâle DEMİRTÜRK

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 1995 Issue 2, pp.33-36

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

9/1995

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000735428

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606