LITERARY REBELLION AND MODERN CREATIVITY: A FEMINIST COMMITMENT IN GLORIA NAYLOR’S WRITING
Author(s)
Jean Aimé Kouadio ABO
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Abstract
The literary upper hand which influenced creation and black women’s thriving in
the early 1980s aroused reaction from some women writers. Gloria Naylor’s works
are illustrative of those responses. The matter in hand is to demonstrate how Gloria
Naylor’s literary rebellion that led her to modern creation can be perceived as her
feminist commitment. The paper is conducted in the light of feminist literary
criticism. It reveals that Gloria Naylor, as a feminist novelist, uses her pen to fight
the wrongs of patriarchy and writes her own way. Her five novels break with
tradition, creating thus other narrative techniques, which give a prominent place to
black women. So her literary rebellion leads her to upset the old phallocratic literary
set up and create a new one in women’s favor.
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Domaines
ISSN : 2959-9407 Editeur : UFR Lettres et Arts Université : UPGC Périodicité : Semestriel Domaines : Lettres, Langues, Littératures, Communication et Sciences de l’Education