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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Representations of African American women in young adult biography: A narrative analysis Abstract: Historically, African American women have been represented in the culture by a number of images that are both white and black generated. For the most part, the white generated images have their genesis in slavery and are both damaging and damaged. The African American generated images, on the other hand, have their origins in the desire by blacks, especially black women writers, to counter these more destructive images. Looming larger than life and taking on mythological proportions, these figures have become encoded and inscripted in the culture to the extent that they can be seen in many guises in the popular media, especially on television and in film. Out of a host of mythologized black women figures, this study has identified eight post-Civil Rights Movement figures. Using narrative analysis framed by black and feminist scholarship, this study examines the extent to which these eight mythological figures affect the construction of the lives of black women subjects, concluding that young adult biographies of black women and adult biographies available to a young adult audience overwhelmingly represent black women subjects in the form of myth. |
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