Dissembling Bodily and Literary Wholeness: Centering the Spirit in Disability Studies through Black Women’s Writing
In this article, I analyze Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day and Erna Brodber’s Myal in order to demonstrate that African-derived spiritual systems are central in Black women’s fictional depictions and theorizing of healing and disability. I argue that the violence of what Moya Bailey terms misogynoir is wri...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI
2024
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Religions
Year: 2024, Volume: 15, Issue: 2 |
Further subjects: | B
black women writers
B Healing B Disability studies B African derived religions |
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