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Uncomfortable Rhetorics: The Intersections of Black Womanhood in Autobiographical Narratives Item Info
- Title:
- Uncomfortable Rhetorics: The Intersections of Black Womanhood in Autobiographical Narratives
- Creator:
- Elizenberry, Arika E.
- Date Created:
- 2020-05
- Description:
- Introduction: "The speaker of Lucille Clifton’s poem has been accused of “tending to the past”—of somehow contributing to the production of history, but that she also claims agency over a responsibility she did not ask for. It becomes “monstrous” in that the speaker has the undertaking of weaving together the different fabrics of history. In my research project, I too am tending to the past because I am reclaiming authority over enslaved Black women’s autobiographical narratives, which have been obscured and erased from history. I am confronting unpleasant aspects of history in texts where slavery, sexual and systemic violence, and disenfranchisement intersect. I will allow the narratives of enslaved and free Black women to assert their agency by applying post-colonial theory, African-American Literary theory, and Black feminist theory to better understand the rhetorical strategies they use in discussing Black women’s oppression. Centering their texts will aid in preserving Black women’s visibility, but also nurturing Black women’s written history too. . . ."
- Subjects:
- women black women slavery slave narratives sexualization
- Methods:
- textual analysis creative writing
- Location:
- South Carolina
- Latitude:
- 33.91384458
- Longitude:
- -80.54298951
- Language:
- English
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Uncomfortable Rhetorics: The Intersections of Black Womanhood in Autobiographical Narratives", English Honors Thesis Repository, Nevada State University
- Reference Link:
- https://nevada-state-english.github.io/nsu-english-thesis/items/ht007.html