The Politics of Black Women's Bodies and Sexuality in "The Autobiography of My Mother" by Jamaica Kincaid, and "Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home" by Erna Brodber <Eighth Annual Eastern Caribbean Islands Conference. Tobago 10-12 November, 2005>



Título del documento: The Politics of Black Women's Bodies and Sexuality in "The Autobiography of My Mother" by Jamaica Kincaid, and "Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home" by Erna Brodber <Eighth Annual Eastern Caribbean Islands Conference. Tobago 10-12 November, 2005>
Revista: La torre (Río Piedras)
Base de datos: CLASE
Número de sistema: 000399543
ISSN: 0040-9588
Autores: 1
Instituciones: 1Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, San Juan. Puerto Rico
Año:
Periodo: Jul-Dic
Volumen: 11
Número: 41-42
Paginación: 417-432
País: Puerto Rico
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Analítico
Resumen en español One of the most pervasive cultural legacies of colonial domination in the Caribbean is the distorted notion about black women´s sexuality as immoral, which began to take shape during slavery to justify the sexual abuse of female slaves perpetrated by their masters. Various critics have stressed the need to reclaim black women´s bodies and sexuality, to counter the demonization that it has been subjected to and also to break the code of silence imposed onthis subject. Black Caribbean writers Jamaica Kincaid and Erna Brodber challenge this code of silence and problematize the black female body as a central image in the Autobiography of My Mother by Kincaid, and Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home by Brodber. These two novels narrate the coming of age of black female protagonists who grapple with the complexities of the gendered and racialized experience of sexual awakening and development. This paper will compare the representation of black women´s sexuality and their raced and gendered body in Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home (1980) and The Autobiography of My Mother (1996), focusing on the interrelationship between family dynamics, class and the internalization of sexual values. I will argue that both authors transgress conventional decorum through their open treatment of the unspeakable subject and proposes that Brodber´s novel articulates the regulations imposed by patriarchal, racist, colonial institutions on the body and sexuality of black women, adopted by the repressive moral codes of religious sectors and the aspiring middle class in Jamaica, while Kincaid chooses to focus on the defiance of the controls imposed on black women´s bodies, enacted by her protagonist through the affirmation of her sexuality as a source of pleasure, self-love, autonomy and power
Disciplinas: Literatura y lingüística,
Sociología
Palabras clave: Novela,
Sociología de la mujer,
Sexualidad femenina,
Racismo,
Discriminación de género,
"The autobiography of my mother",
"Jane and Louisa will soon come home",
Kincaid, Jamaica,
Brodber, Erna
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