JOURNAL ARTICLE

Mythologies Uplifted: The New Woman of the Margins in Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins and Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy.

  • Published In: Studies in the Novel, 2024, v. 56, n. 4. P. 397 1 of 3

  • Database: Sociology Source Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Barrett, Kay R. 3 of 3

Abstract

My essay troubles the "true fact" of the New Woman's default whiteness, heteronormativity, and imperialism by returning to her roots in Irish literature and bringing Black women's writing into this canon. Through an analysis of Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins and Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy , I argue for a retooling of the canon grounded in queer theory, Irish discourse, and Black feminism. Using Hortense Spillers's concept of the counter-myth, I explore how Grand and Harper play with familiar narrative conventions—the mistaken identity plot and the tragic mulatta trope—to imagine queer, anti-imperial, and Black New Woman figures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Studies in the Novel. 2024/12, Vol. 56, Issue 4, p397
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:0039-3827
  • DOI:10.1353/sdn.2024.a948002
  • Accession Number:182194498
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