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100	1		_aPenier, Izabella, _d1971- _eauthor. _4aut _4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut _937767
245	1	0	_aCulture-bearing women : _bthe Black women renaissance and cultural nationalism / _cIzabella Penier.
264		1	_aWarsaw ; _aBerlin : _bDe Gruyter Poland Ltd, _c[2019]
264		4	_c©2019
300			_a1 online resource (220 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 191-210) and index.
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tPreface -- _g1. _tIntroduction: The Black Women Renaissance, Matrilineal Romances and the "Volkish Tradition" -- _g2. _tMapping the Black Women's Renaissance: The Formative 1970s and the Shift from a Black Nationalist to a Black Womanist Aesthetic -- _g3. _tMatrifocal Nationalism, Afrocentric Womanism and the Fear of Disinheritance -- _g4. _tKulturnation: The Black Women's Renaissance, Folk Heritage and the Essential Black Female Matrix -- _g5. _tVolknation: The Black Holocaust and the Poetics of the Slave Sublime -- _g6. _tCulturalism, Classism, and the Politics of Redistribution -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex
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 In this way, the writers of the BWR gave rise to "matrifocal" cultural nationalism that superseded masculine cultural nationalism of the previous decade and made black women, instead of black men, principal agents/carriers of national identity.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, id est 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.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aOnline resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed October 7, 2020).
506	0		_aOpen Access _5EbpS
650		0	_aAfrican American women authors _y20th century. _937768
650		0	_aWomen authors, Black _y20th century. _937769
650		0	_aWomen authors, Caribbean _y20th century. _937770
650		0	_aWomen, Black, in literature. _937771
650		0	_aWomanism in literature. _937772
650		0	_aFeminism in literature. _918034
650		0	_aRace awareness in literature. _937773
650		0	_aBlack nationalism in literature. _937774
650		0	_aEthnocentrism. _937775
650		0	_aIntersectionality (Sociology) _937776
650		0	_aAfrican American women authors _xPolitical and social views _xHistory _y20th century. _937777
650		0	_aWomen authors, Black _xPolitical and social views _xHistory _y20th century. _937778
650		0	_aWomen authors, Caribbean _xPolitical and social views _xHistory _y20th century. _937779
650		7	_aLITERARY COLLECTIONS _xGeneral. _2bisacsh _937780
650		7	_aAfrican American women authors. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00799477 _937781
650		7	_aBlack nationalism in literature. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00833735 _937774
650		7	_aEthnocentrism. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00916081 _937775
650		7	_aFeminism in literature. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00922752 _918034
650		7	_aIntersectionality (Sociology) _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01982537 _937776
650		7	_aRace awareness in literature. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01086463 _937773
650		7	_aWomanism in literature. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01905161 _937772
650		7	_aWomen authors, Black. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01177231 _937782
650		7	_aWomen authors, Caribbean. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01177237 _937783
650		7	_aWomen, Black, in literature. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01178939 _937771
648		7	_a1900-1999 _2fast
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628
655		4	_aElectronic books.
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