Abstract
Significant headway has been made in investigating white feminist monolithic strategies and exploring how black females have suffered from patriarchal ideology and stereotyping, and how they were placed in an inferior position and treated as slaves and sexual machines. In research conducted on women of color, however, little attention is paid to black females’ new vision of black “womanism” and its means of struggle. With this in mind, the aim of this study is twofold. First, the goal is to elucidate why black women were victims of white prejudice, despotism, and patriarchal practices. Second, we wish to demonstrate how black females set themselves free from racial ideology and Western hegemony by opting for poetic resistance to achieve hypervisibility, seek their own spirituality, worship their black female deities, restore the joy of their motherhood, and assert their identity. The findings yielded by this research provide support for the key argument that black "womanism" and poetic resistance are the means of self-representation and liberation from Eurocentric, dehumanizing, and exclusionary ideology to repossess one's erased self.
Highlights
Theorists and practitioners of feminist literary criticism were white feminists who, by adopting a monolithic and Eurocentric ideology, perpetuated the silencing of black women and excised dark-skinned female writers from the mainstream literary tradition
Significant headway has been made in investigating white feminist monolithic strategies and exploring how black females have suffered from patriarchal ideology and stereotyping, and how they were placed in an inferior position and treated as slaves and sexual machines
The findings yielded by this research provide support for the key argument that black "womanism" and poetic resistance are the means of self-representation and liberation from Eurocentric, dehumanizing, and exclusionary ideology to repossess one's erased self
Summary
Theorists and practitioners of feminist literary criticism were white feminists who, by adopting a monolithic and Eurocentric ideology, perpetuated the silencing of black women and excised dark-skinned female writers from the mainstream literary tradition. Unearthing New Dimensions of Black “Womanism”: Poetic Resistance and the Journey from Absence to Self-Representation activists have developed a new vision according to which the desire to seize identity by breaking the conspiracy of silence and forming different versions of self represents the main tool for resisting white feminist discourse and improving black women’s status In parallel to these novel critical insights, women of color have extended their enterprise in attributing justice to the literary productions of black female authors and defending the view that black women have their own literary past that must be granted equal consideration. By undertaking analysis of black female lyrics all over the world and throughout different eras, a wider range of feminine voices and forms of poetic resistance deriving from Africa, West Indies, the Indian sub-continent, the United States, Great Britain, and Australia will be presented
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