Original scientific paper
“A Woman is a Chestnut, a Man is a Breadfruit”: Proverbs and Female Resilience in Simone Schwarz- Bart’s The Bridge of Beyond
Ajoke Mimko Bestman
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APA 6th Edition
Mimko Bestman, A. (2017). “A Woman is a Chestnut, a Man is a Breadfruit”: Proverbs and Female Resilience in Simone Schwarz- Bart’s The Bridge of Beyond. Proverbium, 34 (1), 21-40. Retrieved from https://hrcak.srce.hr/278264
MLA 8th Edition
Mimko Bestman, Ajoke. "“A Woman is a Chestnut, a Man is a Breadfruit”: Proverbs and Female Resilience in Simone Schwarz- Bart’s The Bridge of Beyond." Proverbium, vol. 34, no. 1, 2017, pp. 21-40. https://hrcak.srce.hr/278264. Accessed 17 Aug. 2024.
Chicago 17th Edition
Mimko Bestman, Ajoke. "“A Woman is a Chestnut, a Man is a Breadfruit”: Proverbs and Female Resilience in Simone Schwarz- Bart’s The Bridge of Beyond." Proverbium 34, no. 1 (2017): 21-40. https://hrcak.srce.hr/278264
Harvard
Mimko Bestman, A. (2017). '“A Woman is a Chestnut, a Man is a Breadfruit”: Proverbs and Female Resilience in Simone Schwarz- Bart’s The Bridge of Beyond', Proverbium, 34(1), pp. 21-40. Available at: https://hrcak.srce.hr/278264 (Accessed 17 August 2024)
Vancouver
Mimko Bestman A. “A Woman is a Chestnut, a Man is a Breadfruit”: Proverbs and Female Resilience in Simone Schwarz- Bart’s The Bridge of Beyond. Proverbium [Internet]. 2017 [cited 2024 August 17];34(1):21-40. Available from: https://hrcak.srce.hr/278264
IEEE
A. Mimko Bestman, "“A Woman is a Chestnut, a Man is a Breadfruit”: Proverbs and Female Resilience in Simone Schwarz- Bart’s The Bridge of Beyond", Proverbium, vol.34, no. 1, pp. 21-40, 2017. [Online]. Available: https://hrcak.srce.hr/278264. [Accessed: 17 August 2024]
Abstract
The Bridge of Beyond (1982, French original 1972) by Guadeloupian female writer, Simone Schwarz-Bart, depicts Caribbean women at the intersection of gender, race and class. Drawing inspiration from Caribbean oral tradition, itself a legacy of the African patrimony, the author makes copious use of proverbs in the novel. This study analyses some of the proverbs used by female characters from the womanist perspective. It focuses on the internalisation of the messages they encode and how these messages translate into effective means of resistance to various forms of adversity in the hostile post-emancipation Caribbean society. The study reveals that women in the novel and in tandem with the sociology of the Caribbean islands are the stabilising force of the family within a social structure that emasculates black men. The paper concludes that the tenacity and resilience of the women emanate from a positive world view gleaned from proverbs as a result of which they emerge as solid anchors of their families and, by extension, agents of the survival of their entire race.
Keywords
Adversity; Caribbean women; feminism; literature; proverbs; resilience; resistance; Simone Schwarz-Bart; womanism
Hrčak ID:
278264
URI
https://hrcak.srce.hr/278264
Publication date:
31.8.2017.
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