Searching for Sisterhood : Friendship and Sorority Culture in Tajuana Butlerâ s Sorority Sisters.
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| Authors: | Gerund, Katharina | 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. |
Keywords: | sorority fiction; Tajuana Butler; friendship; sisterhood; femininity | Issue Date: | 2016 | Journal/Edited collection: | Black Studies Papers | Issue: | 1 | Start page: | 77 | End page: | 98 | Volume: | 2 | Type: | Artikel/Aufsatz | ISSN: | 2198-7920 | Secondary publication: | no | URN: | urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00105250-10 | Institution: | Universität Bremen | Faculty: | Fachbereich 10: Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (FB 10) |
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