The Blackness and Family History of Black Middle-Class Families in Thomas and Beulah
Thomas and Beulah,a Pulitzer Prize finalist by Rita Dove,the first African-American woman poet laureate,is appraised as Dove's turning to blackness.In this collection of narrative poems,Dove dwells on the gendered aspects of blackness and its mobility,thereby interrogating and negotiating the notion that blackness is solely determined by racial difference,class and gender conformities.Within this work,blackness evolves into a location of heterogeneity and a multi-dimensional dialogic space about race,gender and class.This unique way of representation of blackness in some degree questions and subverts the single racial dimension in African American identity construction and the black stereotype therefrom.Meanwhile,within the tension from the implicit dialogue between husband and wife and the explicit dialogue between the individual and history,Dove narrates a history of African American middle-class family with a distinctive attitude.
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