RT Journal Article
T1 Sexuality and Healing in the African Diaspora: A Transnational Approach to Toni Morrison and Gyasi
A1 Gallego Durán, María Mar
AB This article examines the literary production of two writers from the African diaspora,specifically African American Toni Morrison’s A Mercy (2008), and Ghanaian-American YaaGyasi’s Homegoing (2016), to explore their significance as counter-narratives that defy the “official”historiography of enslavement times in order to set the records straight, as it were. By highlightingthese women writers’ project of resistance against normative definitions of black bodies, it is mycontention that these works effectively mobilize notions of race, gender, and sexuality. Revisiting theharmful and denigrating legacy of stereotypical designation of enslaved women, these writers makesignificant political and literary interventions to facilitate the recovery, wholeness, and sanctity of theviolated and abjected black body. In their attempt to counter ongoing processes of commodification,exploitation, fetishization, and sexualization, I argue that these writers chronicle new forms of identityand agency that promote individual and generational healing and care as forms of protest andresistance against toxic definitions of hegemonic gender and sexuality
PB MDPI
SN 2076-0787
YR 2019
FD 2019-12
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/18215
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/18215
LA eng
NO Gallego Durán, M. M. (2019). Sexuality and Healing in the African Diaspora: A Transnational Approach to Toni Morrison and Gyasi. Humanities, 8(4), 183. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/h8040183
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 31 may 2026