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A Haintly Inheritance in the Poetry of Lucille Clifton and Phillis Wheatley
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The chapter discusses the Mammy stereotype alongside the ghostly figure of the hag to examine perceived impossibilities of Black motherhood. Through the life and poems of Lucille Clifton and Phillis Wheatley, the chapter repositions the hag as an instructive ancestral presence that disrupts Mammy’s limitations and reclaims what has been lost or taken, despite centuries of neglect. As literary foremothers, both Clifton and Wheatley serve as evidence of Black women’s sustaining relationship with Spirit and spiritedness as a means of claiming personhood.
Title: A Haintly Inheritance in the Poetry of Lucille Clifton and Phillis Wheatley
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The chapter discusses the Mammy stereotype alongside the ghostly figure of the hag to examine perceived impossibilities of Black motherhood.
Through the life and poems of Lucille Clifton and Phillis Wheatley, the chapter repositions the hag as an instructive ancestral presence that disrupts Mammy’s limitations and reclaims what has been lost or taken, despite centuries of neglect.
As literary foremothers, both Clifton and Wheatley serve as evidence of Black women’s sustaining relationship with Spirit and spiritedness as a means of claiming personhood.
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