Academic literature on the topic 'Janice Frazier'

Cette étude a pour objet d’explorer une figure d’origine mythologique réactualisée et réinterprétée dans la première moitié du XXe siècle par des ouvrages anthropologiques d’abord, puis à leur suite par certaines œuvres poétiques : il s’agit de la Grande Déesse de l’Antiquité, devenue tout simplement chez certains « la déesse ». De la construction anthropologique à la réécriture littéraire, la déesse apparaît comme une figure composite à la fois de la mère et de la mort. En tant que femme, elle s’oppose à l’homme, en tant que déesse-mère, au dieu-père. Autour d’elle se développe tout un réseau de récits et de représentations d’origines diverses : récit de la quête du héros affrontant la déesse, théorie du matriarcat originel, révélation à la fois sexuelle et spirituelle, énigme de la poésie. A travers elle, c’est en réalité la question des rapports problématiques entre le sexe féminin et l’humain qui se pose
The object of this study is to explore a figure of mythological origin which has been actualized and reinterpreted in the first half of the XXth century by anthropologists first and then, in their wake, by a few poetic works – the Great Goddess of Antiquity, now popularized as the Goddess. From anthropological construction to literary rewriting, the goddess appears as a composite figure, embodying both the idea of the mother and of death. As a woman, she is opposed to man, as a mother-goddess, to the father-god. A whole network of diversely originated representations and narratives develops around her: the narrative of the hero’s confrontation with the Goddess, the theory of prehistoric matriarchy, revelations both sexual and spiritual, the enigma of poetry. Through her, the question of the problematic relations between female gender and humanity is ultimately raised

Pauli Murray was one of the young activists that Mary Church Terrell mentored. In the 1940s, Murray enrolled at Howard University Law School and went on to graduate as the only woman and top student in her class. In the 1930s, the convergence of several important Black male intellectuals at Howard University, including Abram Harris, E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, had cemented a new formal model of the academically trained Black male public intellectual. When Murray enrolled in the 1940s, she experienced great sexism from these Black male intellectuals. She termed their treatment of her, “Jane Crow.” While she went on to have a storied career as a legal expert, Episcopal priest, poet, and writer, all of which place her firmly in the tradition of the race woman, her identity as both a woman and queer person in the 1940s and 1950s collided with the Howard model of public intellectual work. This chapter brings together Murray’s time and training at Howard, her archives, and an examination of her two autobiographies to suggest that her concept of Jane Crow grew out of the collision of race-based sexual politics and limited ideas among Black men about who could provide intellectual leadership for Black people. Moreover, Jane Crow exposed the heterosexist proclivities of Black public leadership traditions, and offers a framework for thinking about how Black women negotiated gender and sexual politics even as they devoted their lives to theorizing new strategies for racial uplift.