The quest for identity of African American women from 1939 to 2000 in postmodern American Drama
This study was conducted to explore the oppression of African American women as well as to determine how their identity was in a struggle to gain in a selection of Postmodern American plays. Sharing the experiences of African American women and their black community of that time, represented a...
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| Summary: | This study was conducted to explore the oppression of African American women as
well as to determine how their identity was in a struggle to gain in a selection of
Postmodern American plays. Sharing the experiences of African American women
and their black community of that time, represented as a journey towards black
femininity on a stage. The significance of this study was derived from the broad topic
of womanhood because the issue of black women with identity is relevant to a variety
of fields. This study made use of Martin and White's (2005) account of Appraisal
Theory. By utilizing one of the Systemic Functional Linguistics systems;
(interpersonal metafunctions), as a framework and focus completely on all the
appraisal categories gave the readers a new way of understanding those literary texts.
This approach aims to investigate the selected data sets to obtain an insight into the
evaluative discourse of women with regard to their emotional, evaluative, and
judgmental stances in their speaking. The study used four Postmodern American plays
which were; Lorraine Hansberry's “A Raisin in The Sun”, 1959, Adrienne Kennedy's
“The Funnyhouse of a Negro”, 1964, Ntozake Shange's “For Colored Girls Who Have
Considered Suicide /When the Rainbow is Enuf”,1976, and finally, Suzan-Lori Parks'
“In the Blood”, 1999. All the selected plays were written between 1939 to 2000 to
trace back the status of African American women and the main factors which helped
them to overcome their identity issue. It is concluded that African American women
have been doubled marginalized and discriminated because of their skin colour as well
as their gender. And later on, through the timeline of the current study, this issue had
not been overcome completely. African American woman did not gain absolute
freedom, complete individual identity, and citizenship within the scope of the assigned
data sets. In other words, all of which ended with these women received some and not
all of their self-appreciation and self-realization of who they were. |
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