Female Body Writing in The Women of Brewster Place
In the realm of American literature,Gloria Naylor is a representative African American writer on a par with Toni Morrison and Alice Walker.Her debut novel The Women of Brewster Place won the American Book Award as soon as it was published.With an application of relevant theories about female body writing,this paper analyzes the female characters in the text,and holds that the body of black women is the object of impris-onment and alienation.From oppression to awakening,the physically and mentally traumatized women gradually gain bodily stability and find spiritual comfort in this community marginalized by the whites.By portraying sev-en black women,Naylor not only expresses her feminist stance and criticizes the harm done to women by patri-archal society,but also reflects her concern for the survival of black women as well as her encouragement for their identity and pursuit of self-happiness.
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