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    Naturally Woman: The Search for Self in Black Canadian Women's Literature
    Naturally Woman: The Search for Self in Black Canadian Women's Literature
    Naturally Woman: The Search for Self in Black Canadian Women's Literature
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    Naturally Woman: The Search for Self in Black Canadian Women's Literature

    By Sharon Morgan Beckford

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    Black Canadian women must constantly incorporate changes to their identities to face the challenges of living in a multicultural society. Naturally Woman: The Search for Self in Black Canadian Women’s Literature examines the ways in which Black immigrant women must adapt to survive in a multicultural country such as Canada without losing their sense of self. The author examines the texts of five major modern/contemporary Canadian writers: Dionne Brand, Marlene Nourbese Philip, Tessa McWatt, Claire Harris, and Makeda Silvera, through prismatic criticism and by applying and extending a number of feminist discourses concerning Black women writing: identity, literary representations of female sojourn in Canada (as simultaneously aboveground and underground), feminist archetypal/myth criticism, and the discourse of mother/daughter/grandmother/substitute mother relationships. The book argues that there is a universal central myth on which the writings of these marginalized women are based and shows how some of the challenges of multiculturalism can be overcome, and how multiculturalism can become a site for creativity and innovation.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInanna Poetry and Fiction Series
    Release dateNov 1, 2012
    ISBN9781771330114
    Naturally Woman: The Search for Self in Black Canadian Women's Literature
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    Sharon Morgan Beckford

    Sharon Morgan Beckford teaches courses in the literatures and cultures of the Black Diaspora. Her work has been published in a variety of journals, nationally and internationally.

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