REIMAGINING LOVE: Understanding Black Mothers and their modes of mothering from fearful to wayaward
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2024-05-30
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This thesis will Reconceptualize Black Motherhood through African American Literature. Explicitly using the novels Sula, The Bluest Eye, and The Street. Through these three novels, there can be a new understanding of motherhood, that motherhood is not categorical and that a categorical model of motherhood is paradoxical for Black Women. Instead this thesis will offer a new way of understanding motherhood outside of the lens of good or bad and will look at how the choices each mother makes within the novels. As well as what modes of mothering is required for every mother to feel autonomous and free, a respect that is not granted easily to Black Women or Black Mothers.
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Black Women, Motherhood