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Foremother Love

By Dana Murphy

Foremother Love

By Dana Murphy

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In Foremother Love, Dana Murphy examines the importance of eighteenth-century poet Phillis Wheatley as a foundational figure for Black feminist criticism. Murphy establishes Phillis (as she refers to her) as a writer who wrote in response to and in conversation with other creators as well as a critic who was invested in sharing, explaining, and evaluating her own and others' work and contexts. Indeed, Phillis played a key role in the development of what Murphy calls "foremother love"-the Black feminist depiction of the love of an unrelated feminist ancestor as a legitimate relation for the practice of inheritance, mourning, liberation, and friendship. Drawing on the work of Barbara Christian, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Barbara Smith, and others, Murphy shows that Black feminist criticism becomes a transhistorical theorization when read in conjunction with Phillis's labor and vision. Revealing how Phillis lives on in Black feminist criticism, Murphy contends that foremother love is an ethic of critical care that implores readers to recognize the affective labor of all those working in the field.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
250
Release Date:
2025-07-31
Publication Date:
2025-07-31
Publisher:
Duke University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1478031956
ISBN13:
9781478031956
Weight:
412 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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