Black American Girls in Paris
Sex, Race, and Cosmopolitanism in Andrea Lee’s Sarah Phillips and Shay Youngblood’s Black Girl in Paris : Fig.1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12920293 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer D Williams (Morgan State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 238-256 |
| Publication date | 2014-11-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Women s Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1754-1476 • E-ISSN: 1754-1484 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/cww/vpu028 |
| OpenAlex | W2314929781 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
This essay examines how Andrea Lee’s Sarah Phillips and Shay Youngblood’s Black Girl in Paris reimagine the sexual freedoms that Paris affords the “American girl.” In so doing, it brings issues of gender, race, and class to bear on the trope of expatriate transformation made popular by Henry James, James Baldwin, and others. The essay argues that even after the civil rights and feminist movements, black women writers send their protagonists abroad to seek sexual and racial freedoms
Cosmopolitanism · Girl · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Sociology · German Colonialism and Identity Studies · Psychology · Gender Studies · Law
Bodies in Dissent
Race Politics in Britain and France
Embodied Fictions, Melancholy Migrations
Quicksand and Passing
Black France / France Noire
The Melancholy of Race
Gender Trouble
Is This Resistance? African American Postmodernism in Sarah Phillips
The New Black Aesthetic
We Won't Budge
Learning from the Outsider Within
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |