{"title":"Scrutinizing the Construction of the Black Female Persona in African-American Narratives","authors":"Saliou Dione","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.1008003","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":": 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.","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.1008003","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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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.