Searching for Sisterhood : Friendship and Sorority Culture in Tajuana Butlerâ s Sorority Sisters.
Date Issued
2016
Author(s)
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.
Subjects
sorority fiction
;
Tajuana Butler
;
friendship
;
sisterhood
;
femininity
Institution
Type
journal article
Journal/Edited collection
Band
2
Issue
1
Start page
77
End page
98
Secondary publication
No
Language
German
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