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Title: The Fat Black Woman's Poems (Grace Nichols) Notes
Description: University level notes for 'The Fat Black Woman's Poems' by Grace Nichols. Notes from a second year English Literature module called Gender and Sexuality.
Description: University level notes for 'The Fat Black Woman's Poems' by Grace Nichols. Notes from a second year English Literature module called Gender and Sexuality.
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The Fat Black Woman’s Poems (Grace Nichols)
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Bodies
o “Her poems constitute an overt attempt to challenge conventional (white) male
definitions of black women, as well as to redefine black female identities in new and
unexpected ways” – Maite Escudero, ‘Race, Gender and Performance in Grace
Nichols’ The Fat Black Woman’s Poems’, Journal of International Women’s Studies
(2000) 1
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o ‘Beauty’
▪ “Redefines beauty and exposes it as a social construct” – Melissa Johnson
o “The fat black woman responds lustily, assertively, and unashamedly to British (and
Western) concepts of feminine beauty and behaviour” – C
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Innes
o Audre Lorde, ‘Uses of the Erotic’
o ‘Invitation’
▪ “She proudly exhibits her fatness and praises the magnificence and
sensuality of her body through erotic images that subvert the stereotype of
fat women as lacking sexual appeal” – Ana Bringas Lopez
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History
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Saartjie Baartman – ‘Hottentot Venus’
Born 1789 in South Africa
Sold into slavery around 1808, brought to the UK and exhibited around the country
Subsequently moved to France and exhibited there too
Died 1815
Her body dissected and her skeleton, brain and genitals were preserved and placed
on display in Musee de L’Homme until 1974
Her remains finally repatriated in 2002
Language
o “I like working in both standard English and Creole
Title: The Fat Black Woman's Poems (Grace Nichols) Notes
Description: University level notes for 'The Fat Black Woman's Poems' by Grace Nichols. Notes from a second year English Literature module called Gender and Sexuality.
Description: University level notes for 'The Fat Black Woman's Poems' by Grace Nichols. Notes from a second year English Literature module called Gender and Sexuality.