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"In search of satisfaction": Women'...

Jones-Blackman, Elizabeth C.

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"In search of satisfaction": Women's choices in the fiction of J. California Cooper.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	"In search of satisfaction": Women's choices in the fiction of J. California Cooper./
作者:	Jones-Blackman, Elizabeth C.
面頁冊數:	168 p.
附註:	Adviser: Larry R. Andrews.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-10A.
標題:	Black Studies. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3236839
ISBN:	9780542912498

"In search of satisfaction": Women's choices in the fiction of J. California Cooper.
Jones-Blackman, Elizabeth C.

"In search of satisfaction": Women's choices in the fiction of J. California Cooper. - 168 p.

Adviser: Larry R. Andrews.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kent State University, 2006.

J. California Cooper has written six volumes of short stories and four novels. Despite the popularity of her fiction, no complete assessment has been done. This comprehensive, critical study is not organized chronologically but rather according to the psychological and economic choices made by the women characters. This dissertation explains how Cooper merges characteristics from the literary theories of Alice Walker's womanism, Clenora Hudson-Weems' Africana womanism, and from Abena Busia's description of the rebellious woman to illuminate the complexities of her characters as they struggle to make their own happiness, Cooper's personal directive to African American women.

ISBN: 9780542912498Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017673
Black Studies.

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520 $a The first chapter introduces Cooper's personal and literary beliefs and focuses on her use of didacticism, orality, and dialogism throughout her corpus. Spirituality has played a prominent role in the lives of African American women, so Chapter II shows the relevance of spirituality to the women characters' decision-making. This chapter also reveals that the women's choices are driven by their desire for love and their desire to escape poverty. Chapter III shows that Cooper values the role that female bonding plays in the survival of African American women. These mentor-mentee, sister-friend, and patient-analyst relationships help many of Cooper's women avoid decisions that would be detrimental to their self-esteems or that would force them to continue to languish in unfulfilled lives. In Chapter IV, I argue that Cooper, in creating characters whose strong sense of self-definition governs their decision-making, uses Signifyin(g), a theory of African American literary criticism formulated by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; the African principle of nommo; and the adaptation of the trickster tale. In her first three novels, Cooper strengthens these characterizations by revisiting the female slave narrative. These neo-slave narratives present formidable protagonists who, through their language and/or actions, assert their selfhood. Chapter V articulates Cooper's strong points---the intricacies of her style; her treatment of diverse themes; and her use of imagery, the neo-slave narrative, intertextuality, and varied narrative strategies. This work addresses Cooper's mastery of storytelling and female characterization and establishes her contribution to contemporary African American women's fiction.
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