Twenty-First-Century African American Women's Fiction: an Analysis of Brit Bennett's the Mothers and the Vanishing Half
The classicism of the literary canon is unquestionable, as well as the generalized disinterest of academia in the study of works of “low art,” those closest to the wider public. However, African American literature is undergoing a process of evolution in which genre fiction is predominating and mark...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis de maestría |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Valladolid |
| Repositorio: | UVaDOC. Repositorio Documental de la Universidad de Valladolid |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:uvadoc.uva.es:10324/52419 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/52419 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | African American Literature Twenty-First Century Brit Bennett Black Feminism The Mothers The Vanishing Half Popular Fiction Literatura Afroamericana Siglo XXI Ficción de Género Feminismo Negro Las Madres La Mitad Evanescente 5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas |
| Sumario: | The classicism of the literary canon is unquestionable, as well as the generalized disinterest of academia in the study of works of “low art,” those closest to the wider public. However, African American literature is undergoing a process of evolution in which genre fiction is predominating and marking the future of this ethnic literature. Following a theoretical framework based on Critical Race Theory and Black Feminism, this thesis analyzes the two novels written by the African American author Brit Bennett, The Mothers (2016) and The Vanishing Half (2020), locating them within the tradition of African American women’s fiction. This thesis aims to show the great literary relevance of genre fiction written in the twenty-first century through the rewriting of themes already present in canonical works, taking Bennett and her works as an example deserving of scholarly recognition. |
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