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,Gwendolyn Brooks’ Racialization of the Persephone and Demeter Myth in “The Anniad” and “In the Meccer society. In addition to appropriating classical myth she also tackles cultural myths concerning romanticized notions of love, European standards of beauty, and utopian ideals of the American dream.

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Book 2007 Wheatley, Ray, Brooks, Morrison, and Dove uncover the shared experiences of mythic mothers and their contemporary African American counterparts thus offering a unique Black feminist perspective to classicism. The women also use myth as a liberatingspace where they can ‘speak the unspeakable‘ and empower their subjects as well as themselves.

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ature. A comparative analysis of classical revisions by eighteenth and nineteenth century Black women writers Phillis Wheatley and Pauline Hopkins and twentieth century writers Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, and Rita Dove reveals that Black women writers revise specific classical myths for artisti

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Historical Overview of Ancient and Contemporary Representations of Classical Mythology,nt myths, the myths of Persephone and Demeter, Niobe, and Medea are the only myths discussed in this chapter because they explore the central theme of motherhood that is reflected in the writing of almost all of the authors in this study.