CONTEXT Flashcards
HISTORICAL REALISM:
The littered references to vital historical moments that champion social change, such as the Civil Rights Movement, the death of Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King, invoke a sense of historical realism that loosely reflects the reality of the black experience in the 1960
inequality is exhibited both CONTEXTUALLY and TEXTUALLY in ‘THE HELP’
Medgar Evers, MARTIN LUTHER KING
OTHERING
black people are subjugated as the other, seen as inferior; in need of being tamed
pathological stereotypes are perpetuate to maintain the inferior position of black people
‘you cannot lead a negro and night alone unchaperoned’ hyper sexualisation of blackness: virile
‘they are not like regular people’
MISCEGENATION: challenges GRAND NARRATIVES
fear of miscegenation: Constantine’s father was white
‘not belonging here nor there’
causes conflict : cannot be defined as one race
challenge of racial segregation and globalisation encouraged miscegenation
CROSS RACIAL AUTHORING
ironically contradicts and ridicules the authenticity of the black voice as it is vocalised and profited off ‘white saviours’: Stockett and Skeeter, thus resulting in the maintenance to the cycle of inequality perpetuated by white hegemonic culture
‘white peoples been representing coloured opinions since the beginning of time’
‘another white later trying to make a dollar off of coloured people’
MAMMY FIGURE
black female identity is shaped by the forces of others: black men or white society
controls the identity of black women
physiognomy of warmth
antithesis of what men desire, mitigates blame for white men’s assault on black women
‘white people are not your friends’
adheres to social norms from a young age
‘long as I got my WHITE UNIFORM ON, i’m allowed to shop’
SHAME- construct in the mammy figure
CARE DEFICIT
‘irony that we love them and they love us, yet…we don’t even allow them to use the toilet’
‘the glorified mammy figure who dedicates her WHOLE life to a white family’
‘there is undisguised hate for white women, there is inexplicable love’
‘dichotomy of love and disdain’
a lot of coloured women (gave their ) children up… cause they HAVE to tend to a white family’
META FICTION
SKEETER and AIBILEEN expose through Metafiction of the COMPLEXITIES OF CROSS RACIAL AUTHORING
