Embodiment and Black Religion - Rethinking the Body in African American Religious Experience - CERCL Writing Collective
4. Unchained Bodies: Black Womanhood, Resistance, and Complex Subjectivity in Black Literature
Embodiment and Black Religion - Rethinking the Body in African American Religious Experience - CERCL Writing Collective
CERCL Writing Collective [+]
Rice University
The authors of this volume are the members of Rice University's Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning Writing Collective: Anthony B. Pinn, Jessica B. Davenport, Justine M. Bakker, Cleve V. Tinsley IV, Biko Mandela Gray, David A. Kline, Jason O. Jeffries, Sharde' N. Chapman and Mark A. DeYoung
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We continue to interrogate the religious significance of creative reconstructions of the black body through cultural production by turning to two literary depictions of black women in Chapter 4, “Unchained Bodies: Female Embodied Experience and Radical Subjectivity in Black Literature.” Here, we posit that the female protagonists in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Octavia Butler’s Wild Seed assume “gender fluid” identities that subvert patriarchal and white supremacist constructions of black women’s bodies.