글로리아 네일러의 『브루스터 플레이스의 여성들』: 정황적 자매애와 지속 가능한 공동체
Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place: Subaltern Sisterhood, Livability, and Textual Politics
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Locating Gloria Naylor at the ideological crossroads between African American nationalism and feminism, this article examines her first novel, The Women of Brewster Place (1982), as a feminist negotiation with black nationalism. Despite Naylor's self-identification as both black nationalist and feminist, Naylor's literary negotiations between these two ideologies remain understudied. The Women of Brewster Place is Naylor's feminist intervention in black nationalist discourses that sustain the patriarchal subordination of women and silence homosexual subjects within African American communities. In this novel, Naylor describes the power of women-centered, predominantly lower-class community as a political entity of subaltern viability and as a repository of alternative memories that have been deliberately forgotten, ignored, or silenced in hegemonic discourses. By rendering a subaltern women-centered community visible, Naylor imaginatively demonstrates these women's historical contribution to African Americans' survival since the Slavery. This article engages in critical dialogues in Naylor criticism by situating Naylor's celebration of black sisterhood. The sisterhood Naylor celebrates in this novel is historically specific to American society in which African American women as subaltern subjects have developed and practiced the tradition of community mothering. By challenging heterosexist norms and homophobia, which often lead to complicit silencing of violence against women, Naylor suggests a feminist vision for the livability of contemporary black communities and brings back a long-denied textual space to African American subaltern women with a rich description of the multiple black women's experience.
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Locating Gloria Naylor at the ideological crossroads between African American nationalism and feminism, this article examines her first novel, The Women of Brewster Place (1982), as a feminist negotiation with black nationalism. Despite Naylor's self-identification as both black nationalist and feminist, Naylor's literary negotiations between these two ideologies remain understudied. The Women of Brewster Place is Naylor's feminist intervention in black nationalist discourses that sustain the patriarchal subordination of women and silence homosexual subjects within African American communities. In this novel, Naylor describes the power of women-centered, predominantly lower-class community as a political entity of subaltern viability and as a repository of alternative memories that have been deliberately forgotten, ignored, or silenced in hegemonic discourses. By rendering a subaltern women-centered community visible, Naylor imaginatively demonstrates these women's historical contribution to African Americans' survival since the Slavery. This article engages in critical dialogues in Naylor criticism by situating Naylor's celebration of black sisterhood. The sisterhood Naylor celebrates in this novel is historically specific to American society in which African American women as subaltern subjects have developed and practiced the tradition of community mothering. By challenging heterosexist norms and homophobia, which often lead to complicit silencing of violence against women, Naylor suggests a feminist vision for the livability of contemporary black communities and brings back a long-denied textual space to African American subaltern women with a rich description of the multiple black women's experience.
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