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In five pages this paper examines the common thread of African American women’s identity that forges a community through the generations as revealed in Bambara’s short stories ‘My Man Bovanne,’ ‘Gorilla, My Love,’ ‘The Lesson,’ and ‘The Survivor.’ Three sources are cited in the bibliography.
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they are biological mothers, sisters, or members of the extended family. From the standpoint of many Black daughters it could be: my sister, my mother, my aunt, my mother,
my grandmother, my mother. They are all daughters, and they frequently mother their sisters, nieces, nephews, or cousins, as well as their own children" (Joseph and Lewis 76).
This observation goes to the heart of Toni Cade Bambaras 1972 collection of short stories, Gorilla, My Love. The incarnations of girls and women at the various stages of
their lives are all interwoven together in a common thread of community that transcends the superficial barriers of age. The stories My Man Bovanne, Gorilla, My Love, The Lesson,
and The Survivor represent a unity or a single identity that a community of African-American women does exist based upon their shared culture and socioeconomic life experiences. The community
Bambara constructs within her short stories is cemented and reinforced by the bond that exists between women. It is the strength that resides within and that which they draw
from each other that sustains them. My Man Bovanne is a story that concerns a middle-aged woman named Hazel who attends a political fundraiser with a blind man named
Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woman of her age. Hazel revels in her sexuality and when she dances with Bovanne,
she is initially moved by sympathy for this man that has been essentially forgotten by society. But as the story progresses, Hazel comes to realize that society has, in
a sense, taken a blind eye to her for there appears to be no place for a middle-aged woman. Through her defiance of her daughters and social norms, Hazel
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