Bøger af T. Harris

I awake one morning with the feeling of a swollen tongue. A tongue feeling too large for my mouth. Topped with the ruggedness of hard coarse sandpaper coated with the hot burning sand straight from the Sahara Desert. As I glided the tip of my tongue across the roof of my mouth from back to front, and gently down the back of my front teeth. I felt my tongue slit in two as if it was a fork in the road, and each of those slits were split into two tails. As my tongue left passing my lips, I heard the same sounds in my head every day of snakes rattling and hissing, UNTIL!

Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature posits strength as a frequently contradictory and damaging trait for black women characters in several literary works of the twentieth century. Authors of these works draw upon popular images of African American women in producing what they believe to be safe literary representations. Instead, strength becomes a problematic trait, at times a disease, in many characters in which it appears. It has a detrimental impact on the relatives and neighbors of such women as well as on the women themselves. The pattern of portraying women characters as strong in African American literature has become so pronounced that it has stifled the literature.

Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature posits strength as a frequently contradictory and damaging trait for black women characters in several literary works of the twentieth century.