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100	1		_aPenier, Izabella, _eauthor. _4aut _4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
245	1	0	_aCulture-bearing Women : _bThe Black Women Renaissance and Cultural Nationalism / _cIzabella Penier.
264		1	_aWarsaw ; _aBerlin : _bDe Gruyter Open Poland, _c[2019]
264		4	_c©2019
300			_a1 online resource (220 p.)
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tPreface -- _t1 Introduction: The Black Women Renaissance, Matrilineal Romances and the "Volkish Tradition" -- _t2 Mapping the Black Women's Renaissance: The Formative 1970s and the Shift from a Black Nationalist to a Black Womanist Aesthetic -- _t3 Matrifocal Nationalism, Afrocentric Womanism and the Fear of Disinheritance -- _t4 Kulturnation: The Black Women's Renaissance, Folk Heritage and the Essential Black Female Matrix -- _t5 Volknation: The Black Holocaust and the Poetics of the Slave Sublime -- _t6 Culturalism, Classism, and the Politics of Redistribution -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex
506	0		_aOpen Access _uhttps://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 _funrestricted online access _2star
520			_aThis study examines the Black Women's Renaissance (BWR) - the flowering of literary talent among African American women at the end of the 20th century. It focuses on the historical and heritage novels of the 1980s and the vexed relationship between black cultural nationalism and black feminism. It argues that when the nation seemingly fell out of fashion, black women writers sought to re-create what Renan called "a soul, a spiritual principle" for their ethnic group. BWR narratives, especially those associated with womanism, appreciated "culture bearing" mothers as cultural reproducers of the nation and transmitters of its values. In this way, the writers of the BWR gave rise to "matrifocal" cultural nationalism that superseded masculine cultural nationalism of the previous decade and made black women, instead of black men, principal agents/carriers of national identity. This monograph argues that even though matrifocal nationalism empowered women, ultimately it was a flawed project. It promoted gender and cultural essentialism, i.e. it glorified black motherhood and mother-daughter bonding and condemned other, more radical models of black female subjectivity. Moreover, the BWR, vivified by middle-class and educated black women, turned readers' attention from more contentious social issues, such as class mobility or wealth redistribution. The monograph compares the cultural nationalist novels of the 1980s with social protest novels written by the same authors in the 1970s and explains the rationale behind the change in their aesthetic and political agenda. It also contrasts novels written by womanist writers (Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor to name just a few) and by African Caribbean immigrant or second-generation writers (Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, Jamaica Kincaid and Michelle Cliff) to show that, on the score of cultural nationalism, the BWR was not a monolithic phenomenon. African American and African Caribbean women writers collectively contributed to the flourishing of the BWR, but they did not share the same ideas on black identities, histories, or the question of ethnonational belonging.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
540			_aThis eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: _uhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)
650		4	_aBlack Women Renaissance, Black Nationalism, Womanism.
650		7	_aLITERARY COLLECTIONS / General. _2bisacsh
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