Shameless Sex
Something about the way African American women write about sexuality is unparalleled. There is a kind of an easy and beautiful continuum between pain and passion, that is expressed in a raw and unashamed way, that speaks to a culture that developed from very different roots in this country. Maybe it stems from what Brenda Stevenson says in her essay, “The predominance of matrifocality and the larger percentage of slave women in smaller holdings, therefore, had a significant impact on slaves’ domestic lives, giving slave women great influence in their family and communities” (Peiss 160).
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April 16th, 2013 at 1:20 pm
I find it interesting, Rachel, that you conclude your analysis by referencing Eva’s love for her son, especially considering she later burns that same son alive. Yet her act seems more of an expression of her love, and her reluctance to watch her son degrade his and his family’s lives through his drug addiction. I hope we can explore this theme on a deeper level in class.