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Revising black female slave identity, post-coloniality, and ethno-maternalism in Octavia Butler's "Kindred" and "Lilith's Brood"
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Awanjo, Amanda. Revising black female slave identity, post-coloniality, and ethno-maternalism in Octavia Butler's "Kindred" and "Lilith's Brood". Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3VM4F2V

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TitleRevising black female slave identity, post-coloniality, and ethno-maternalism in Octavia Butler's "Kindred" and "Lilith's Brood"
NameAwanjo, Amanda (author); Green, Keith (chair); Blackford, Holly (co-chair); Rutgers University; Camden Graduate School
Date Created2015
Other Date2015-05 (degree)
SubjectEnglish, African Americans--Race Identity, Slavery--United States, Post colonialism, Materialism--United States, Butler, Octavia E.--Criticism and interpretation
Extent1 online resource (ii, 46 p.)
DescriptionWithin her novels," Kindred" and "Lilith’s Brood", Octavia Butler uses the idea of ethno-maternity to explore the ways in which matrilineal relationships between black women can act as way to break free from white supremacist heteropatriarchal structures and allow black women full subjectivity. Between these two texts, Butler explores the ways in which ethno-maternity and a reliance on maternal memory both helps the black female body work through the trauma of remembering slavery, but also helps black women deconstruct the institutionalized gendered hierarchies of colonialism.
NoteM.A.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Noteby Amanda Dibando Awanjo
Genretheses, ETD graduate
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3VM4F2V
Languageeng
CollectionCamden Graduate School Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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