Rethinking Motherhood and Motherly Love in Toni Morrison’s Sula and Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place

AUTOR(ES)

Ribeiro, Ane Caroline, Santos, José de Paiva dos

FONTE

Ilha Desterro

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2017-04

RESUMO

Abstract This article examines how the novels Sula, by Toni Morrison, and The Women of Brewster Place, by Gloria Naylor, deconstruct long-held controlling images of black women, particularly the matriarch. The characters Eva Peace in Sula and Mattie Michael in The Women of Brewster Place, among others, provide great illustrations of black women who have rejected many of the places and stereotypes reserved for them in society, consequently deconstructing controlling images white society has imposed on them. These novels highlight black women’s plural roles in society, thereby opening possibilities for a liberating experience of black womanhood.

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