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- Title
Senses of Place: The Black Community in Alice Childress's Wedding Band.
- Authors
Shih, Yi-chin
- Abstract
Alice Childress's Wedding Band (1966), set in an unnamed Black South Carolina community in 1918, dwells upon Julia's loneliness, caused by her interracial love, which is forbidden by the state's law against miscegenation. Julia's anxiety about being transgressive fosters her desire to belong to a community characterized by Black women's culture and their sense of place. Her quest for a place in society highlights the segregated community's need for a specifically Black space. Wedding Band complicates the interlocking system of oppression by addressing the notion of place and also demonstrates that Black women are not passive in respect to their surroundings.
- Subjects
SOUTH Carolina; WEDDING Band (Play); CHILDRESS, Alice, 1916-1994; 20TH century drama; AFRICAN American women in literature; MISCEGENATION in literature; RACE relations in literature; UNITED States in literature; 20TH century (Literary period)
- Publication
Journal of Modern Literature, 2023, Vol 46, Issue 4, p132
- ISSN
0022-281X
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.2979/jml.2023.a908978