Liberating Themselves in Poetic Rhymes: On How Afro-American Women Poets Interpret and Re-construct Black Women's Identities

Abstract

Abstract: For African Americans, poem is a unique way to express their inner minds. In the poems analyzed in this paper, from women's perspective, Afro-American women poets interpret black women's diligence and persistence, extremely marginalized social identities, and their vital role in maintaining the developments of black nation. Through depicting the true images of black women, the poets aim at dissolving their negative stereotypes in mainstream society so that they can re-construct their identities as soon as possible. Based on identity theory, this paper demonstrates that, as an artistic means, poem owns distinctive powers to interpret and re-construct black women's identities.

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WANG Yezhao. Liberating Themselves in Poetic Rhymes: On How Afro-American Women Poets Interpret and Re-construct Black Women's Identities[J]. Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies, 2013, 13(04): 47-50.

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