Introduction: the Black female body: seeing, believing and perpetuating popular and literary images -- A raisin in the sun: the strong Black woman as acceptable tyrant -- Strength and the battle ground of slavery: even parody: Ishmael Reed and Mammy Barracuda -- Strength and the battle ground of slavery: survival beyond survival: the price of strength in Beloved -- Commanding the universe: more than witch: Bambara's Minnie Ransom ; Tough enough to kill, tough enough to transcend death: J. California Cooper's Clora -- Strength as disease bordering on evil: Dorothy West's Cleo Judson -- The stubbornness of tradition: do what Big Mama sez: Ernest J. Gaines's A lesson before dying ; New territory, no change: Pearl Cleage's Flyin' west -- Balance?: Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the sower -- Conclusion: can this mold be broken?
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