Domestic Abuse in the Novels of African American WomenAuthor :
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Published : Friday 30 May 2014
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The literary tradition begun by Zora Neale Hurston in the 1930s has since flourished and taken new directions with a diverse body of fiction by more contemporary African-American women writers. This book examines the treatment of domestic violence in Hurstons
Their Eyes Were Watching God , Gayl Joness Corregidora, Gloria Naylors The Women of Brewster Place and Linden Hills, Alice Walkers The Color Purple, Toni Morrisons The Bluest Bye and Love, Terry McMillans Mama and A Day Late and a Dollar Short, and Octavia Butlers Seed to Harvest. These novels have given voice to oppressed and abused women. The aims of this work are threefold: to examine how female African American novelists portray domestic abuse; to outline how literary depictions of domestic violence are responsive to cultural and historical forces; and to explore the literary tradition of novels that deal with domestic abuse within the African American community.
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