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11
English became one area of strong debate and a place where one’s
loyalties were tested.
As previously stated, these chapters are by necessity intersecting
and sometimes overlapping. Liberation struggles are rarely (if ever)
straight-forward movements towards some ideal. Instead, people (as the
term implies) struggle to fashion a better world for themselves and for
those who come after them. The Black Arts/Black Power and Chicano
movements were no different. As each was made up of many different
organizations and individuals, with different and competing ideologies
and strategies, so too must a discussion of the movements take into
account the inherent contradictions of revolution. It would be a mistake
to view either of these movements as simply one more step on the path
towards liberation. Instead, we must acknowledge the places where, in a
quest for liberation of one group, the oppression of another may occur.
The lesson to be learned from a close examination of the women writers
of the Black Arts/Black Power and Chicano movements is that all
struggles for freedom must be self-reflective, and must be willing to
jettison any ideologies that (re)inscribe subjugation of part of the group in
a misguided attempt to liberate the whole.
Object Description
| Title | "As shelters against the cold": women writers of the Black Arts and Chicano movements, 1965-1978 |
| Author | Ryder, Ulli Kira |
| Author email | uryder@usc.edu; uryder@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | American Studies & Ethnicity |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-08-27 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 27 October 2010. |
| Date published | 2010-10-27 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | McKenna, Teresa |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Sanchez, George J. Johnson, Dana |
| Abstract | This dissertation examines the work of women writers in the Black Arts and Chicano movements during the years 1965-1978. I argue that understanding the intersectional nature of the women's experiences is crucial for understanding their literary output. Further, I argue that Chicanas and African American women of this era challenged homogenous notions of community and racial identity and that we can trace the development of the Third World feminism and multiculturalism that came to the fore in the 1980s to this earlier period. Thus, this study also impacts the way we conceptualize identity formation and the creation of the literary canon. Investigating the ways in which these women integrated nationalist and feminist rhetoric and activism in their work is crucial for a full understanding of this critical period in U.S. history. At stake is an understanding of how Chicana and African American women in the United States have formed identities and communities; struggled for liberation and equality; and become part of the U.S. literary canon. |
| Keyword | Black Power; Black Arts movement; Chicano movement; civil rights; racial identity formation; womanism; borderlands theory; feminism; Third World feminism; nationalism; intersectionality |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 1965/1978 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1698 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Ryder, Ulli Kira |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Ryder-2415 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume40/etd-Ryder-2415.pdf |
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| Title | Page 16 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 11 English became one area of strong debate and a place where one’s loyalties were tested. As previously stated, these chapters are by necessity intersecting and sometimes overlapping. Liberation struggles are rarely (if ever) straight-forward movements towards some ideal. Instead, people (as the term implies) struggle to fashion a better world for themselves and for those who come after them. The Black Arts/Black Power and Chicano movements were no different. As each was made up of many different organizations and individuals, with different and competing ideologies and strategies, so too must a discussion of the movements take into account the inherent contradictions of revolution. It would be a mistake to view either of these movements as simply one more step on the path towards liberation. Instead, we must acknowledge the places where, in a quest for liberation of one group, the oppression of another may occur. The lesson to be learned from a close examination of the women writers of the Black Arts/Black Power and Chicano movements is that all struggles for freedom must be self-reflective, and must be willing to jettison any ideologies that (re)inscribe subjugation of part of the group in a misguided attempt to liberate the whole. |
