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Jenkins, Candice Marie.

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Cultural infidels: Intimate betrayal and the bonds of race (Toni Morrison, Nella Larsen, Alice Walker, Gayl Jones).

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Cultural infidels: Intimate betrayal and the bonds of race (Toni Morrison, Nella Larsen, Alice Walker, Gayl Jones)./
作者:	Jenkins, Candice Marie.
面頁冊數:	310 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-06, Section: A, page: 2242.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-06A.
標題:	Literature, American. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3057430
ISBN:	0493727078

Cultural infidels: Intimate betrayal and the bonds of race (Toni Morrison, Nella Larsen, Alice Walker, Gayl Jones).
Jenkins, Candice Marie.

Cultural infidels: Intimate betrayal and the bonds of race (Toni Morrison, Nella Larsen, Alice Walker, Gayl Jones). - 310 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-06, Section: A, page: 2242.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duke University, 2001.

My dissertation questions why twentieth-century African American women's literature is continually preoccupied with respectability. I argue that this preoccupation originates in US ideologies about African Americans, and reflects an often unarticulated link between the intimate and the political in black culture. The project's foundation is an intraracial phenomenon I call the "salvific wish," a largely feminine desire to rescue the black community from stigma by embracing bourgeois propriety. Narratives addressed in the dissertation demonstrate how black women's texts enact, interrogate, and critique the salvific wish, particularly through "cultural infidel" figures, characters who defy the wish's behavioral strictures.

ISBN: 0493727078Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017657
Literature, American.

Cultural infidels: Intimate betrayal and the bonds of race (Toni Morrison, Nella Larsen, Alice Walker, Gayl Jones).
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520 $a In my first chapter, I historicize the salvific wish and suggest that it underlies representations of adultery in two of Toni Morrison's novels, Sula and Jazz. I argue that because the expression of feminine will in these texts disrupts a laboriously maintained black domesticity, cultural infidel figures like Sula Peace are seen as treacherous not only to individual households, but to entire communities. I claim in my second chapter, focusing on Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing, that the influence of the salvific wish is the source of an essentialist redefinition of race in Larsen's fiction, which relies upon the white-skinned mulatta figure for coherence. The tendency of such figures towards sexual trespass, however, marks them as cultural infidels and ultimately precludes their acceptance by Larsen's black bourgeois community.
520 $a I show in my third chapter, on Alice Walker's The Color Purple , that Walker's novel highlights the masculinist investments of the salvific wish by interrogating the black nuclear family. I argue, further, that a critical narrative which positions Walker herself as cultural infidel grows from a wish-driven fear of the gender instability suggested by Walker's reenvisioned family dynamics. In my final chapter, which addresses Gayl Jones's Eva's Man, I contend that violence surrounding sexual expression in Jones's text mirrors the salvific wish's paradoxical efforts to make black desire safe through its suppression. Eva Canada's madness therefore demonstrates not just the alleged insanity of the cultural infidel, but the lunacy of attempts to deny the expression of black intimacy, precisely because that denial limits black humanity.
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