RT info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
T1 Twenty-First-Century African American Women's Fiction: an Analysis of Brit Bennett's the Mothers and the Vanishing Half
A1 García Morgado, Mónica
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 African American Literature
K1 Twenty-First Century
K1 Brit Bennett
K1 Black Feminism
K1 The Mothers
K1 The Vanishing Half
K1 Popular Fiction
K1 Literatura Afroamericana
K1 Siglo XXI
K1 Ficción de Género
K1 Feminismo Negro
K1 Las Madres
K1 La Mitad Evanescente
K1 5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas
AB The classicism of the literary canon is unquestionable, as well as the generalized disinterest of academia in the study of works of “low art,” those closest to the wider public. However, African American literature is undergoing a process of evolution in which genre fiction is predominating and marking the future of this ethnic literature. Following a theoretical framework based on Critical Race Theory and Black Feminism, this thesis analyzes the two novels written by the African American author Brit Bennett, The Mothers (2016) and The Vanishing Half (2020), locating them within the tradition of African American women’s fiction. This thesis aims to show the great literary relevance of genre fiction written in the twenty-first century through the rewriting of themes already present in canonical works, taking Bennett and her works as an example deserving of scholarly recognition.
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/52419
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/52419
LA eng
NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa
DS UVaDOC
RD 02-dic-2024