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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| Main Authors: | Ane Caroline Faria Ribeiro, Jose Paiva Santos |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2017-01-01
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| Series: | Ilha do Desterro |
| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/45550 |
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