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James Tackach
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2025.01.001
Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI., USA
The term “Black Girl Magic” has slipped into our literary vocabulary. The term refers to Black female characters in literary works by writers such as Toni Morrison and Alice Walker who challenge the dehumanizing elements of Black female existence. Can white writers create Black Girl Magic? This essay suggest that they can, offering as examples Eliza Harris in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Dilsey Gibson in William Faulkner’s 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury.
Black Girl Magic
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, January 2025, Vol. 15, No. 1, 1-5
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