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Saints,Sinners,Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature Book

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  • Saints,Sinners,Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature
  • Written by author Trudier Harris
  • Published by Palgrave Macmillan, December 2001
  • Harris (English, U. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) examines a selection of African American literary texts in which strong and/or large African American female characters appear. She argues that as well as a positive attribute, strength can be a problem f
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Preface
Ch. 1Introduction: The Black Female Body: Seeing, Believing, and Perpetuating Popular and Literary Images1
Ch. 2A Raisin in the Sun: The Strong Black Woman as Acceptable Tyrant21
Ch. 3Strength and the Battle Ground of Slavery: I. Even Parody: Ishmael Reed and Mammy Barracuda41
Ch. 4Strength and the Battle Ground of Slavery: II. Survival Beyond Survival: The Price of Strength in Beloved57
Ch. 5Commanding the Universe: I. More Than Witch: Bambara's Minnie Ransom79
Ch. 5Commanding the Universe: II. Tough Enough to Kill, Tough Enough to Transcend Death: J. California Cooper's Clora79
Ch. 6Strength as Disease Bordering on Evil Dorothy West's Cleo Judson101
Ch. 7The Stubbornness of Tradition: I. Do What Big Mama Sez: Ernest J. Gaines's: A Lesson Before Dying123
Ch. 7The Stubbornness of Tradition: II. New Territory, No Change: Pearl Cleage's Flyin' West123
Ch. 8Balance?: Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower153
Ch. 9Conclusion: Can this Mold be Broken?173
Notes181
Works Cited or Consulted201
Index209


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