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4 pages in length. Defining the Afrikan woman takes on myriad components; attempting to identify this particular individual cannot be accomplished with any singular approach. Alice Patterson Patience's Bittersweet Memories of Home provides a significantly better understanding of just how difficult it has become for Afrikan women to identify themselves with any one culture, inasmuch as they have become entangled within the clutches of two very divergent societies. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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a significantly better understanding of just how difficult it has become for Afrikan women to identify themselves with any one culture, inasmuch as they have become entangled within the clutches
of two very divergent societies. A large part of Patiences message is about survival -- a state of mental, physical, spiritual, political, social
and religious survival. By hanging on to the realities of her past, the author proves better equipped to withstand the unwelcome - and often unwitting - existence of despair
and disheartenment that surrounded her. Indeed, one can readily argue that she is on a mission to find her historical self through her literary characters, in spite of the
fact that everything she had come to know as being representational of her heritage was playing out as distant memories having been infiltrated, damaged and callously disregarded to at least
some degree. "At the heart of our national narrative is an American paradox: a democracy that declared all men equal, while using the enslavement and oppression of one people
to provide independence and prosperity for another...Yet many people regard the history of African Americans as somehow separate" (Patterson, no date). To
say the entire point of Bittersweet Memories of Home relates directly to the fight for ones historical existence within the newly created world of the white man would be a
gross understatement; indeed, Patience clearly illustrates how the road to self-expression through life choices has long been paved with racial intolerance and characteristic skepticism for the Afrikan woman. Patience
points out that characteristic of humanitys constant quest for the concept of meaning, the journey of understanding has come to represent myriad things to myriad people, ultimately rendering any universal
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