Scrutinizing the Construction of the Black Female Persona in African-American Narratives

Saliou Dione
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: This article is a panoramic survey of the construction of the black female persona, which refers to both the role and character adopted by an author, and the aspect of the characters‟ character that others either presented or perceived. It lays bare the historical experiences whose negative side effects are markedly noticeable through black women‟s daily interactions and interrelations in some American literary texts. Using black feminism and queer theories, the paper emphasizes how, after years of bondage, new subtler ways of subjugation give to the reader an idea of black female‟s realities in a white racist, white and male-dominated country. To this end, it historicizes the black female subject as it explores the historical actuality, authenticity, and factuality that account for the „a priori‟ male-hegemony approach, the interrelatedness of white supremacy, and male superiority that has characterized their reality in a situation of struggle to survive in two contradictory worlds informed by societal gender constructions, conceptions, attitudes, and practices.
审视非裔美国人叙事中黑人女性角色的建构
本文是对黑人女性人格建构的全景式考察,既指作者所扮演的角色和性格,也指他人所呈现或感知到的人物性格方面。它通过一些美国文学文本中黑人女性的日常交往和相互关系,揭示了历史经验的负面影响。本文运用黑人女权主义和酷儿理论,强调黑人女性在经历了多年的奴役之后,如何以新的更微妙的方式向读者展示黑人女性在一个白人种族主义、白人和男性主导的国家中的现实。为了达到这个目的,它将黑人女性主体历史化,因为它探索了历史的现实性、真实性和事实性,这些现实性、真实性和事实性解释了“先验的”男性霸权方法,白人至上主义的相互关联,以及男性优越感,这些都是她们在社会性别结构、观念、态度和实践所影响的两个矛盾世界中挣扎求生的现实特征。
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