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Oct 12, 2017

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Articulating elements of feminism and race, we briefly analyse novels by two contemporary black women writers Um Defeito de Cor, 2006, by the Afro-Brazilian authoress Ana Maria Gongalves; and The Hottentot Venus, 2004, by the Afro-American Barbara Chase-Riboud. These writers create narrative voices of black women as central characters, constructing thus an innovative perspective compared with traditional literature, in which the black woman is constructed as ‘the other’, from a perspective that is practically always of a sexist orientation and racist in nature.

Cristina M.T. Stevens
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Stevens, C. M. (2017). (Re-)writing pain. Contemporay black women writers. Contextos: Estudios De Humanidades Y Ciencias Sociales, (37), 169–183. Retrieved from https://revistas.umce.cl/index.php/contextos/article/view/1271

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