Violence against women, racism and resilience mechanisms in contemporary black british women literature: Bernardine Evaristo
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Black women literature, sisterhood, Bernardine Evaristo, resilience, racism, violence.Abstract
This article intends to be of interest for readers in Black contemporary women fiction based mainly on identity, violence against women, racism and the capacity of resilience to overcome some traumas from the past and from the present. Black British women, represented here as female characters in the selected writings by Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other (2019) and Manifesto: on Never Giving Up (2021), or even through the author’s experiences herself, develop some resilient mechanisms in order to overcome the traumatic experiences they have suffered due to violent and/or racist episodes. Moreover, some reflections about Black literature written by women in general as well as Black British women writers, more specifically, and their power of sisterhood, are also themes dealt with in this paper.
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