Reconfiguring Feminism
Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3971593 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Merve Sarıkaya-Şen (0000-0003-2091-2536, Department of American Culture and Literature, Başkent University, Bağlıca Kampüsü, Fatih Sultan Mahallesi Eskişehir Yolu 18. Km, 06790 Etimesgut/Ankara, Turkey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 303-315 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-19 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The European Legacy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1084-8770 • E-ISSN: 1470-1316 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10848770.2021.1898109 |
| OpenAlex | W3134773361 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 7 |
In this article I discuss Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other (2019) as a transmodern narrative that gives voice to a marginalised group of black women living in Britain. Written in a hybrid style that combines prose and poetry and eschewing punctuation and long sentences, the novel interweaves sundry stories from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first century set in countries ranging from Africa, the Caribbean, and America to Britain. This networked structure exposes transtemporal and transnational patterns of diversity, connectedness and relationality, as well as the distinctive genealogy of black British women and their maternal empowerment. I argue that the resilience of the characters in the face of social, racial and gender marginalisation springs from their empathic relatedness and solidarity. This emphasis on the importance of care for the other highlights the need for improving not only women’s rights and socioeconomic opportunities but of benefiting humanity on a broader scale
Art · Empowerment · Feminism · Girl · Literature · Narrative · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |