DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS IN BELL HOOKS' BONE BLACK
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https://doi.org/10.25159/0256-6060/1239Keywords:
double consciousness, bone black, bell hooksAbstract
This article investigates the shifts in the concept of double consciousness as depicted in bell hooks’ Bone black (1996). According to du bois, the idea of ‘double consciousness’ refers to being both black and American. In du boisian understanding, double consciousness refers to a condition of being black and American in which ‘one ever feels his two-ness – an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings’ (du bois 1989, 5). Bell hooks agrees with this view but she also revises the concept in order to take on board the fact that black women have other experiences in addition to double consciousness in America (hooks 1996).
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