Searching for Sisterhood
Friendship and Sorority Culture in Tajuana Butler's Sorority Sisters
| dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage | 77 | en_US |
| dc.bibliographicCitation.issue | 1 | en_US |
| dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage | 98 | en_US |
| dc.bibliographicCitation.volume | 2 | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Gerund, Katharina | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-02-10T16:00:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-02-10T16:00:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This essay examines Tajuana Butler’s Sorority Sisters (1998) regarding its portrayal of friendship, sisterhood, and sorority culture. The novel conceptualizes ‘sisterhood’ as a fictive kinship structure and emphasizes the empowering potential of friendship among women. It fully embraces sorority culture and presents pledging as a ‘social drama’ in all its facets. Overall, Sorority Sisters provides an intervention into dominant representations of sorority life and black femininity. Yet, this intervention hinges on a discursive system of control shaped by conventional femininity and an uncritical affirmation of the ideology, practices, and significance of sororities. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/2838 | |
| dc.identifier.urn | urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00105250-10 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.relation.issn | 2198-7920 | en_US |
| dc.relation.journal | Black Studies Papers | en_US |
| dc.rights | L::CC BY-NC 4.0 | en_US |
| dc.subject.ddc | ddc:810 | en_US |
| dc.subject.field | americanstudies | en_US |
| dc.subject.field | literarystudies | en_US |
| dc.title | Searching for Sisterhood | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | Friendship and Sorority Culture in Tajuana Butler's Sorority Sisters | |
| dc.title.specialissue | Current Perspectives in Transnational Black Studies | en_US |
| dc.type | article | en_US |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion | en_US |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication |