The black female slave takes literary revenge: Female gothic motifs against slavery in Hannah Crafts’s "The Bondwoman’s Narrative"

Vicent Cucarella-Ramon

doi:10.18172/jes.2786

Autores/as

Vicent Cucarella-Ramon Universitat de València

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.2786

Palabras clave:

Esclavitud, Gótico Femenino, Afroamericana, mujer, Hannah Crafts, Esclava.

Resumen

La Narración de la Esclava es una novela que funciona como una historia surgida de la experiencia como esclava de Hannah Crafts, mezclando así realidad y ficción, en un intento de ofrecer un completo testimonio de la esclavitud con elementos reales y ficticios. Siguiendo y adaptando el género gótico que surgió en Europa como reacción al espíritu romántico, Crafts lo galvaniza para denunciar el degradante sistema de la esclavitud y, en concreto, para lanzar una crítica mordaz a las raíces patriarcales que estigmatizan a la mujer negra como la víctima por antonomasia. En mi opinión, Hannah Crafts utiliza el género Gótico femenino tanto para atacar la esclavitud como para auto-erigirse como ciudadana (afro)americana capaz de hacer servir los elementos culturales que la cultura americana ofrece para contrarrestar los feroces estereotipos que sitúan a la mujer afroamericana en la parte más baja de la escala social.

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Biografía del autor/a

Vicent Cucarella-Ramon, Universitat de València

Departament Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya

Currently working on my PhD in African American literature

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