2 Thus, the tradition of African American women’s autobiographies requires a suitable theoretical framework when examining their texts. In her autobiography Becoming, Michelle Obama shows her awareness of her intersectional identity as she writes ‘I’ve been the only woman, the only African American, in all sorts of rooms’. This statement from the 20th century captures the intersectionality of African American women’s identities. 1Īfrican American women autobiographers constructs a self that has, as Terrell puts it, two central handicaps-gender and race. I belong to the only group in this country, which has two such huge obstacles to surmount. A white woman has only one handicap to overcome-that of sex. It cannot possibly be like a story written by a white woman. In 1940, Mary Church Terrell wrote in the introduction of her autobiography, A Colored Woman Living In A White World: This is the story of a colored woman living in a white world. Introduction: Tracing Autobiographical Genres and Intersectional IdentitiesĬhapter One: ‘Am I Good Enough?’: Selling the American Dream in Michelle Obama’s Autobiography BecomingĬhapter Two: Reinventing The Role of First Lady: A Quest for Self-Definition Through Intersectionalityīibliography Introduction Fusing Autobiographical Genres and Intersectional Identities
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