Dr. Muslim Abbas Eidan Al- Ta’an & Shaimaa Hadi Radhi
University of Kufa & General Directorate for Education in Najaf, Iraq
Toni Cade Bambara’s fresh and new aesthetic voice bestows her a distinctive fame among critics and generations of readers who highly appreciate her literary works. Poetics of Bambara’s different voice of the black narrative language stems from being deeply rooted in the American South. For Bambara, to be born in a lyrical Southern environment is to have a cluster of possibilities: to have such a kind of potentiality of ‘thinking black’ in an open sacred or secular Southern space; to take into account the matter of force and freedom, and to have a lot of chances, as a black Southern woman, in terms of art, activism and life. By means of her ‘thinking black’ of the sensitive potentiality and energetic power of her mother tongue, she is aesthetically committed to break her words open in order to get at the bones. Further, she deals with the musicality of her narrative symbols as if they were atoms. The aesthetic intention beyond her constant quest is to explore how the voice of the very narrative word becomes an energetic meaning, and how the word transmits its aesthetic power to the reader as a healing discourse. In our present paper, we attempt to argue the significance of the voice of the lyrical poetics which gives its powerful energy to the language of the narrative discourse. The study will show, too, that Bambara’s narrative poetics stems from the lyrical Southern environment of Black American space and time.
The above abstract is a part of the article which was accepted at The Fourth Annual International Conference on Languages, Linguistics, Translation and Literature (WWW.TLLL.IR), 1-2 February 2020, Ahwaz.
