Rethinking motherhood and motherly love in Toni Morrison’s Sula and Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place
The present article examines how the novels Sula by Toni Morrison, and The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor, deconstruct long-held controlling images of black women, particularly the Matriarch. The characters Eva Peace and Mattie Michael provide great illustrations of black women who have d...
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The present article examines how the novels Sula by Toni Morrison, and The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor, deconstruct long-held controlling images of black women, particularly the Matriarch. The characters Eva Peace and Mattie Michael provide great illustrations of black women who have denied many of the places reserved for them in society, consequently deconstructing controlling images white society imposes on them. These novels place emphasis on black women’s plural roles in society, thereby opening possibilities for a liberating experience of black womanhood.
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| spelling | doaj-art-413e797f59ae415ab08f37fa895be8f02025-08-20T01:50:11ZengUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaIlha do Desterro0101-48462175-80262017-01-0170110.5007/2175-8026.2017v70n1p6926264Rethinking motherhood and motherly love in Toni Morrison’s Sula and Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster PlaceAne Caroline Faria Ribeiro0Jose Paiva Santos1Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Federal University of Minas GeraisUniversidade Federal de Minas Gerais Federal University of Minas Gerais The present article examines how the novels Sula by Toni Morrison, and The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor, deconstruct long-held controlling images of black women, particularly the Matriarch. The characters Eva Peace and Mattie Michael provide great illustrations of black women who have denied many of the places reserved for them in society, consequently deconstructing controlling images white society imposes on them. These novels place emphasis on black women’s plural roles in society, thereby opening possibilities for a liberating experience of black womanhood. https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/45550 |
| spellingShingle | Ane Caroline Faria Ribeiro Jose Paiva Santos Rethinking motherhood and motherly love in Toni Morrison’s Sula and Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place Ilha do Desterro |
| title | Rethinking motherhood and motherly love in Toni Morrison’s Sula and Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place |
| title_full | Rethinking motherhood and motherly love in Toni Morrison’s Sula and Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place |
| title_fullStr | Rethinking motherhood and motherly love in Toni Morrison’s Sula and Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rethinking motherhood and motherly love in Toni Morrison’s Sula and Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place |
| title_short | Rethinking motherhood and motherly love in Toni Morrison’s Sula and Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place |
| title_sort | rethinking motherhood and motherly love in toni morrison s sula and gloria naylor s the women of brewster place |
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