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The heart of a woman: Black women's lives in the United States and South Africa as portrayed in the autobiographies of Maya Angelou and Sindiwe Magona.

机译：女人的心脏：玛雅·安杰卢和辛迪威·麦格纳的自传中描绘的黑人妇女在美国和南非的生活。

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In this study I establish links between black South African women's autobiographical writing and its Afro-American counterpart. By showing women's autobiographical writing about children and home to be intricately involved with the racial and economic politics of the relevant country, I radicalize such writing and acknowledge its contribution to the struggle for racial equality. Concentrating on the authors' narratives of their childhood, their experiences as mothers, and how they use their autobiographical works in their roles as citizens, I advance the thesis that Magona's and Angelou's Afro-centric consciousness is embodied in their maternal politics.; I begin by distinguishing Afro-centric womanism from Western feminism. I then contextualize Magona and Angelou within their respective autobiographical traditions, emphasizing how they advance the womanist consciousness first articulated by their predecessors by also exposing chauvinism in the black community. I argue that in their childhood, the two protagonists move in opposite directions. Magona becomes more anxious as Angelou becomes more confident. This pattern reflects the contrast between the movement toward civil rights in the United States at the same time that South Africa was becoming more repressive to blacks. I then discuss how the protagonists' experiences of motherhood enable them to challenge the prevailing notions of maternity by questioning the supremacy of the nuclear family structure, showing how black working-class mothers are not domesticated, and by dispelling the idealization of marriage. In the final analysis, patriarchy exists in both countries in this moment of transition from traditional culture to modernism, but the protagonists strive towards self-empowering identities nonetheless.; In the last chapter I argue that the evolution from manual labor to the cultural work of writing autobiography enables Magona and Angelou to teach following generations how to survive and even thrive against the odds. In addition, because their volumes can be read coextensively with their short stories and poems, these writers challenge the hierarchical generic structures that often devalue women's autobiographies.
机译：在这项研究中，我建立了南非黑人女性自传体写作与美国黑人之间的联系。通过展示有关儿童和家庭的妇女自传体写作，使之与相关国家的种族和经济政治错综复杂地联系在一起，我激进了这种写作，并承认其对争取种族平等斗争的贡献。着重于作者的童年叙事，母亲的经历以及他们如何作为公民扮演自传体作品，我提出了麦格纳和安杰卢以非洲为中心的意识体现在他们的母体政治中的论点。首先，我将以非洲为中心的女性主义与西方女性主义区分开来。然后，我将麦格纳和安格鲁在各自的自传传统中进行情境化，强调他们如何提高其前辈首先表达的女性意识，并在黑人社区中暴露沙文主义。我认为，这两位主角在他们的童年时期朝相反的方向前进。随着Angelou变得更加自信，Magona变得更加焦虑。这种模式反映了在南非向黑人施加压迫的同时，美国向民权运动的对比。然后，我将讨论主角的孕育经历，如何通过质疑核心家庭结构的至高无上，表明黑人工薪阶层的母亲是如何不被驯化以及消除婚姻的理想化来挑战普遍的生育观念的。归根结底，这两个国家在从传统文化向现代主义过渡的那一刻都存在父权制，但主角们仍在努力争取自我授权的身份。在上一章中，我认为，从体力劳动到写作自传的文化工作的演变，使Magona和Angelou能够教导后代如何生存，甚至在逆境中壮成长。此外，由于可以与她们的短篇小说和诗歌一起广泛阅读其作品，因此这些作家对经常贬低女性自传的等级化通用结构提出了挑战。

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    Koyana, Siphokazi Z.;

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    Temple University.;

  • 授予单位 Temple University.;
  • 学科 Literature Modern.; Literature American.; Literature African.; Womens Studies.; Black Studies.; Biography.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 1999
  • 页码 262 p.
  • 总页数 262
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 世界文学;各国文学;社会学;人类学;传记;
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