Document Type : Extracted from a master's thesis
Author
پـەروەردەی کـەلار
Abstract
This article explores the intersectional oppression in the literature of African American women by using comparative analysis studying Nowhere Is a Place by Bernice McFadden and The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker. Making use of the theory of intersectionality by Kimberlé Crenshaw, this study examines how race, gender, and class interweave to produce unique shapes of trauma and resistance in multiple generations of black women. Through close reading, this article classifies three essential dimensions: systemic discrimination via intersecting oppression, the transmission of intergenerational trauma through material lineages, and the different strategies the characters use for psychological liberation and healing. The study shows that the two novels illustrate how the experiences of black women cannot be comprehended via single-axis structures but need understanding of how several oppressions intersect in producing distinct vulnerabilities and ways of resilience. McFadden and Walker illustrate how trauma works as both as victimization and motivation for transformative resistance. The characters deal with racialized violence, economic marginalization, and patriarchal control while also highlighting female kinship networks, creative self-determination, and spiritual resources to reclaim dignity and agency.
Keywords
Article Title [کوردی]
Intersectional Trauma in Nowhere Is a Place by Bernice McFadden and The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker
Author [کوردی]
- تاژان ارکـان احمد
Kalar education
Abstract [کوردی]
This article explores the intersectional oppression in the literature of African American women by using comparative analysis studying Nowhere Is a Place by Bernice McFadden and The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker. Making use of the theory of intersectionality by Kimberlé Crenshaw, this study examines how race, gender, and class interweave to produce unique shapes of trauma and resistance in multiple generations of black women. Through close reading, this article classifies three essential dimensions: systemic discrimination via intersecting oppression, the transmission of intergenerational trauma through material lineages, and the different strategies the characters use for psychological liberation and healing. The study shows that the two novels illustrate how the experiences of black women cannot be comprehended via single-axis structures but need understanding of how several oppressions intersect in producing distinct vulnerabilities and ways of resilience. McFadden and Walker illustrate how trauma works as both as victimization and motivation for transformative resistance. The characters deal with racialized violence, economic marginalization, and patriarchal control while also highlighting female kinship networks, creative self-determination, and spiritual resources to reclaim dignity and agency.
Keywords [کوردی]
- Intersectionality
- Trauma
- African American literature
- resistance
- race and gender
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