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03413aam a22004458i 4500 001 0E5815462FC611E7A3652FCCDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170503010126 008 170413s2017 scu b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2016058040 020 $a 1611177480 (hardback) 020 $a 9781611177480 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)960835307 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d NYP $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a PS153.N5 $b M66 2017 082 00 $a 810.9/928708996073 $2 23 084 $a SOC031000 $a SOC031000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Moore, Geneva Cobb, $e author. 245 10 $a Maternal metaphors of power in African American women's literature : $b from Phillis Wheatley to Toni Morrison / $c Geneva Cobb Moore ; foreword by Andrew Billingsley. 263 $a 1703 264 1 $a Columbia, South Carolina : $b The University of South Carolina Press, $c [2017] 300 $a pages cm 520 $a "Geneva Cobb Moore deftly combines literature, history, criticism, and theory in Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature by offering insight into the historical black experience from slavery to freedom as depicted in the literature of nine female writers across several centuries. Moore traces black women writers' creation of feminine and maternal metaphors of power in literature from the colonial era work of Phillis Wheatley to the postmodern work of Paule Marshall, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison. Through their characters Moore shows how these writers re-create the identity of black women and challenge existing rules shaping their subordinate status and behavior. Drawing on feminist, psychoanalytic, and other social science theory, Moore examines the maternal iconography and counter-hegemonic narratives by which these writers responded to oppressive conventions of race, gender, and authority. Moore grounds her account in studies of Phillis Wheatley, Harriet Jacobs, Charlotte Forten Grimke, Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston. All these authors, she contends, wrote against invisibility and powerlessness by developing and cultivating a personal voice and an individual story of vulnerability, nurturing capacity, and agency that confounded prevailing notions of race and gender and called into question moral reform. In these nine writers' construction of feminine images--real and symbolic--Moore finds a shared sense of the historically significant role of black women in the liberation struggle during slavery, the Jim Crow period, and beyond."-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a African American women in literature. 650 0 $a Power (Social sciences) in literature. 650 0 $a Motherhood in literature. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations. $2 bisacsh 700 1 $a Billingsley, Andrew, $e writer of foreword. 941 $a 3 952 $l ULAX314 $d 20190926095702.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180112063838.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170706034908.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0E5815462FC611E7A3652FCCDAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search