<헬프>와 <히든 피겨스>에 나타난 교차 억압의 대항 세력으로서의 흑인 여성 자매애

Abstract

This paper aims to explore Black sisterhood in the two movies, The Help and Hidden Figures focusing on how it functions as a counterforce against the intersectional oppression of race, gender, and class that African-American women have faced throughout history. Black sisterhood was historically established as a survival strategy under slavery where black women had to cooperate with each other for child care and survival in severe conditions and since then it has played the key role as a counterforce against racism and sexism in the white male-dominated society. Black sisterhood has been dealt with as one of the most important themes in Black women's literature and recent Hollywood movies dealing with black women's life have also focused on it. The Help and Hidden Figures, which cover African American women's self exploration and social achievements set in the sixties, present Black sisterhood as the most important sauce enabling individual African American women to make social achievements in the middle of the intersectional oppression of race, gender, and class, and contributing to making them become a rising powerful group of the modern American society.