Crossing Boundaries: Black Women's Diaspora in Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place | ||
| Anbar University Journal of Languages & Literature | ||
| Article 15, Volume 14, Issue 1, January 2022, Pages 414-430 PDF (374.42 K) | ||
| Document Type: Research Paper | ||
| DOI: 10.37654/aujll.2022.176314 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Mohammed Dera Farhan* ; Marwan Kadhim Mohammed* | ||
| Dept. of English, College of Education for Humanities, University of Anbar | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The present study aims at examining the black women's diaspora in framing the black woman's identity in Naylor's Novel The Women of Brewster Place in terms of the Radicalesbians' manifestation of The Woman-Identified Woman. It is an attempt of revealing the black woman's identity away from the patriarchal society. Stepping across a very forbidden taboo, Naylor frames the black woman's identity in a very exclusive manner away from the conventional one. She presents a totally different vista of living by which a black woman can experience her freedom and true feelings towards another black woman on the basis of mutual love. Theresa and Lorraine explore their personalities through mutual love as a means of establishing and redefining the personality and identity of a black woman. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Gloria Naylor; The Women of Brewster Place; Woman-Identified Woman; Afro-American Identity | ||
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