Narrative Significations of Contemporary Black Girlhood

Autor/inn/en	Brooks, Wanda; Sekayi, Dia; Savage, Lorraine; Waller, Ellyn; Picot, Iresha
Titel	Narrative Significations of Contemporary Black Girlhood
Quelle	In: Research in the Teaching of English, 45 (2010) 1, S.7-35 (29 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0034-527X
Schlagwörter	Adolescent Literature; Adolescents; African Americans; Females; Fiction; Urban Areas; Identification (Psychology); Feminism; Authors; Reading Materials; Intelligence; Human Body; Interpersonal Relationship; Ethnicity; Sexual Identity + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescents; Literature; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; literatur; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Afroamerikaner; Weibliches Geschlecht; Fiktion; Urban area; Stadtregion; Feminismus; Author; Autor; Autorin; Intelligenz; Klugheit; Menschlicher Körper; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Ethnizität; Geschlechtsidentität; Sexuelle Identität
Abstract	This article examines how Black girlhood is constructed through fiction. The following research question guided this study: How do writers represent the heterogeneity of urban teenage girls in school-sanctioned African American young adult literature? Five popular narratives that exemplify the contemporary lives of urban African American female pre/teenage protagonists represent the data. Utilizing a Black feminist epistemological framework coupled with a complementary theory of adolescent identity development, we analyze the symbolic textual representations along with the protagonists' decision making and situational depictions. We argue that the protagonists' textual heterogeneity manifests across the texts through four enactments of identity: intellectual, physical, kinship, and sexual. These findings have both theoretical and practical implications for educators and researchers alike. (Contains 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10