Womanism in the fiction of Alice Walker
- Autores: Justine Tally
- Lectura: En la Universidad de La Laguna ( España ) en 1986
- Idioma: español
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Javier Coy Yll (presid.), Bernhard Hans Ludwig Dietz Guerrero (secret.), Asunción Alba (voc.), Fernando Galván Freile (voc.), Pablo Dominguez (voc.)
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THE PRESENT DISSERTATION UNDERTAKES TO DISCOVER WHAT ALICE WALKER MEANS BY THE WORD WOMANISM A TERM SHE HERSELF HAS COINED. A REVIEW OF HER OWN PROGRESSIVE DEFINITION AND MODERN FEMINIST THOUGHT IN MANY DIFFERENT FIELDS REVEALS THAT SHE COINCIDES TO A STRIKING DEGREE WITH WHAT IS BEING TERMED THE SECOND WAVE OF FEMINISM WHICH IN TURN REFLECTS A PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE COMMON NOT ONLY TO WOMEN BUT ALSO TO OTHER SUBORDINATED SOCIAL GROUPS SPECIFICALLY BLACK PEOPLE IN GENERAL AND INHABITANTS OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH. A DETAILED ANALYSIS OF HER FICTION (THREE NOVELS AND TWO BOOKS OF SHORT STORIES AND TWO UNCOLLECTED PIECES) DOCUMENTS A CONSISTENT AND DYNAMIC VIEW OF THE WORLD WHICH AS THOSE OF A BLACK SOUTHERN WOMAN DIRECTLY CONTRADICT THE PREVAILING WHITE NORTHERN MALE PHILOSOPHY PREVALENT IN MODERN-DAY OCCIDENTAL SOCIETY.
