Postcolonial African American Female Writers and their Three-Way battle against Imperialism Canonization and Sexism : Developing a New Multicultural Feminism

ECU Author/Contributor (non-ECU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)

Damion O. Lewis (Creator)

Institution

East Carolina University (ECU )

Web Site: http://www.ecu.edu/lib/

Advisor

Seodial F. H. (Seodial Frank Hubert) 1956- Deena

Abstract: Female writers continue to remind us of the differences between themselves and males and the separate struggles they face. For a woman the task of liberation through writing must include also a thrash against the establishment created by male power in this case white-male power. Writings by women must be successful in relaying the unique female experience; one unlike that of their male counterparts. However the works by women of color are constantly attacked and often dismissed as feministic sexist one-sided and the like. Fortunately this has not discouraged the female "voice" from emerging. Writers such as Alice Walker Zora Neale Hurston Toni Morrison and countless others have created a new space for the discussion of the female experience within postcolonial settings; moreover their work has and continues to rage a three-way battle against imperialism canonization and sexism.

Additional Information

Publication

Thesis

Language: English

Date: 2011

Keywords

Literature, American, African American studies

Subjects

African American women authors--Political and social views

Feminism and literature--United States

Feminism in literature

Women authors, American

Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784--Criticism and interpretation

Hurston, Zora Neale--Criticism and interpretation

Walker, Alice, 1944- --Criticism and interpretation

Morrison, Toni--Criticism and interpretation

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