Gerund K (2016)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Journal article, Online publication
Publication year: 2016
Publisher: Universität Bremen
Book Volume: 2
Pages Range: 77-98
Journal Issue: 1
URI: http://elib.suub.uni-bremen.de/edocs/00105250-1.pdf
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.
APA:
Gerund, K. (2016). Searching for Sisterhood: Friendship and Sorority Culture in Tajuana Butler’s Sorority Sisters. Black Studies Papers, 2(1), 77-98.
MLA:
Gerund, Katharina. "Searching for Sisterhood: Friendship and Sorority Culture in Tajuana Butler’s Sorority Sisters." Black Studies Papers 2.1 (2016): 77-98.
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