Open AccessSULA: A PORTRAYALOFBLACKAMERICA.N"WOMA.~ ASHEADOFTHEFANULY
Author(s) -
Ekawati Marhaenny Dukut
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
celt
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2502-4914
pISSN - 1412-3320
DOI - 10.24167/celt.v3i2.1087
Subject(s) - patriarchy , family ties , gender studies , face (sociological concept) , sociology , livelihood , event (particle physics) , political science , history , genealogy , social science , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , agriculture
In a world of patriarchy, the head of a family is usua/~v the
male. However, under certain circumstances, such as the depression
era of the 1930s that the Black American family had to face, the
mother is forced to become the head of the family. Through a brief
look at history, actual~v the function of Black American woman as
the key person of upholding the family ties and sustaining thefamity 's
livelihood has been carried out ever since the Blacks arrived in
America as slaves. 7'hrough one kind of cultural studies approach,
i. e. an American studies approach, the article discusses this event
through a close analysis of the female characters described in the
novel 'Sula '.