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Hurston walker marshall women writing other women

entify with our lives the living creativity some of ourgreat-grandmothers were not allowed to know. I stresssome of them because it is well-known that the majorityof our great-grandmothers knew without even "knowing"it, the reality of their spirituality, even if they didn'trecognize it beyond what happened in the singing atchurch (Walker, 1996: 2318-2319).Walker delves into the subconscious and ever-present spirituality that is found in African-American women and she believes that it is important to identify with this. Some of these women had the potential to be great writers. Walker identifies with this potential and she expresses their creativity and culture through her own writing. Therefore, Walker's writings become the bridge that connects the gap between African-American women of the past and their search to be able to express their creativity and spirituality. Walker breaks down the barriers that these women could not overcome:[T]he subject of recovery has been the concern of many black women writers who seek various kinds of redemptionfor women who have been imprisoned in sexist fantasy orracist stereotype for too long (Dixon, 1987: 107).Walker may have the freedom to write, but she can also identify with the historical racism that had haunted her ancestors. She feels connected to the toils and hardships that the black women had been subjected to, and this is a way that Walker identifies herself to her African-American ancestors.Marshall's identification with her African-American ancestors is more explicitly involving her mother and her mother's friends. What may be viewed on the surface as a typical black woman domestic labourer to most people, is what Marshall sees as the ultimate expression of art. In her essay, Marshall identifies with her mother and the African-American tradition that her mother expressed. Marshall describes the kitchen setting she was exposed to as a child:They were women in whom the need for ...

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