Revue Sinzang

Scientific Journal of Literature, Language, Communication and Educational Sciences

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Title

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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ISSN : 2959-9407
Editeur : UFR Lettres et Arts
Université : UPGC 
Périodicité : Semestriel
Domaines : Lettres, Langues, Littératures, Communication et Sciences de l’Education