Abstract:

In 1973, Margaret Walker transformed Phillis Wheatley into the rebirth of Black women’s poetry via an eponymous poetry festival, an extension of a praxis she had been refining in her 1966 novel Jubilee since its inception in 1934. By understanding Phillis’s story to be as celebratory as the passed-down stories of Margaret’s maternal ancestors in Jubilee, Margaret empowered an entire generation of Black women poets, including herself, to frame Black feminist literature as a collective praxis of cross-generational time travel. Margaret’s work demonstrated that Black women’s acts of remembrance and gratitude are songs of liberation worthy of their own praise.

摘要：

1973年，玛格丽特·沃克（Margaret Walker）通过同名的诗歌节将费利斯·惠特利（Phillis Wheatley）转变为黑人女性诗歌的重生，这是她自1934年创立以来在1966年的小说《禧年》中不断完善的实践活动。玛格丽特（Margaret）祖先在禧年（Jubilee）的流传下来的故事中，玛格丽特（Margaret）使整个黑人女性诗人，包括她自己在内，都将黑人女性主义文学作为跨代时间旅行的共同实践来加以构架。玛格丽特的作品表明，黑人妇女的纪念和感激之举是值得他们赞扬的解放之歌。