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Western Fathers/Writing Daughters: The Place Of Gender In The Autobiographical Nonfiction Of Mari Sandoz, Mary Clearman Blew, Linda Hasselstrom, And Julene Bair., Nicole Zickefoose
Western Fathers/Writing Daughters: The Place Of Gender In The Autobiographical Nonfiction Of Mari Sandoz, Mary Clearman Blew, Linda Hasselstrom, And Julene Bair., Nicole Zickefoose
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Introduction: It was a hot humid late-summer day, typical during baling season in Iowa. I waited with my sister Summer in the kitchen; we were supposed to take sandwiches and drinks over to the barn for the baling crew at noon. We had both offered to drive the tractor or help load hay onto the rack and then the haymow, but has been turned own by my father. Instead, he has wanted the names of any high school boys we knew who could help this afternoon. When questioned about these old-line notions by my fairly opinionated and liberal mother, he …
Skin Conditions: The Black Black Woman In African American Literature, Helen L. Fountain
Skin Conditions: The Black Black Woman In African American Literature, Helen L. Fountain
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While much has been made of the dominant culture's use of radical monsters in the US national narrative, there is evidence, this study contends, that US literature written by African Americans reflects a monster-making of its own. The texts under review here demonstrate the vulnerability of visibly dark female skin to monster-making, decoding and recoding, by an elitist groups of blacks who, in their efforts to negotiate a positive American identity (i.e., sought to integrate themselves into the American mainstream) traded in black black female skin. Critical inquiries generally lump all African American women into one homogenous group, even as …