Saints, Sinners, Saviors

Strong Black Women in African American Literature

By: Trudier Harris

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Hardcover | 7 December 2001 | Edition Number 1

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Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature posits strength as a frequently contradictory and damaging trait for black women characters in several literary works of the twentieth century. Authors of these works draw upon popular images of African American women in producing what they believe to be safe literary representations. Instead, strength becomes a problematic trait, at times a disease, in many characters in which it appears. It has a detrimental impact on the relatives and neighbors of such women as well as on the women themselves. The pattern of portraying women characters as strong in African American literature has become so pronounced that it has stifled the literature.

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'...vivid and provactive descriptions of some of the great strong women characters of recent African American literature.' - Charlotte Observer

'...vivid and provocative descriptions of some of the great strong women characters of recent African American literature.' - D.G. Martin, Rocky Mount Telegram

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Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Black Female Body: Seeing, Believing, and Perpetuating Popular and Literary Images
A Raisin in the Sun	p. 21
The Strong Black Woman as Acceptable Tyrant
Strength and the Battle Ground of Slavery	p. 41
Even Parody: Ishmael Reed and Mammy Barracuda
Strength and the Battle Ground of Slavery	p. 57
Survival Beyond Survival: The Price of Strength in Beloved
Commanding the Universe	p. 79
More Than Witch: Bambara's Minnie Ransom
Tough Enough to Kill, Tough Enough to Transcend Death: J. California Cooper's Clora
Strength as Disease Bordering on Evil	p. 101
Dorothy West's Cleo Judson
The Stubbornness of Tradition	p. 123
Do What Big Mama Sez: Ernest J. Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying
New Territory, No Change: Pearl Cleage's Flyin' West
Balance?	p. 153
Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower
Conclusion	p. 173
Can this Mold be Broken?
Notes	p. 181
Works Cited or Consulted	p. 201
Index	p. 209
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