The Contested Space of Black Female Sexuality: Communal Norms and Female Sexual Agency in Sub -Saharan Francophone Novels
Fifer, Stacy Ellen
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Title
The Contested Space of Black Female Sexuality: Communal Norms and Female Sexual Agency in Sub -Saharan Francophone Novels
Author(s)
Fifer, Stacy Ellen
Issue Date
2005
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Murdoch, H. Adlai
Department of Study
French
Discipline
French
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Women's Studies
Language
eng
Abstract
Reading these novels in the political mode of interpretation allows one to identify how this oppression works and what is at stake in this control: maintenance of racial communal borders, protection of patrilineal descent, and thus male dominance, but also, maintenance of racial dominance, specifically white males controlling black female sexuality. Most of the female authors in this study offer formal solutions to the elimination of gender oppression in the aesthetic realm, solutions that imagine alternative communities where female sexual agency is an ideological position.
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