Surviving the Impossibility of Black Motherhood: Trauma and Healing in Sherley Anne Williams’s Dessa Rose
The paper reads the novel Dessa Rose (1986) by African American author Sherley Anne Williams, and focuses on the duality of motherhood as compounding and healing trauma at the same time. After placing the novel is its socio-cultural and literary context, I argue, relying on Black feminist and Afro-p...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
University of Zadar
2019-12-01
|
| Series: | [sic] |
| Online Access: | http://www.sic-journal.org/ArticleView.aspx?aid=570 |