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TOPIC: Toni Cade Bambara
INTRODUCTION:
Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995) was an African American writer, educator, and activist, who was born in New York City on March 25, 1939, grew up in. a working- class family and attended public schools in Harlem before going to on to earn a BA in theatre Arts and English from Queens college in 1959.
Bambara was involved in a wide range of educational, professional, and community-service pursuits. Following her bachelor’s degree, she studied theatre, dance, and film at various institutions in New York City (including New York University
Bambara’s life experience as a black woman growing up in Harlem during civil right movement of the 1960s deeply influence her work as writer and activist. She wrote different books and articles, just name few, Gorilla my love, the salt eaters, the black feminist, black woman and many more. (Dubey, Madhu.)
Overall, Bambara’s life experience as a black woman growing up in Harlem during civil movement, her involvement in various social and political causes, and work as an educator and educator all contributed to her writing, which is celebrated, for its exploration of African American cultures, language, and identity as well as its focus on social justice and political activists.
” Nelson Mandela said, if you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.
Toni Cadi Bambara was a renownbyaffa1ed African American writer, educator and social activist who made significant contributions to American literature.
I MAIN POINTS: Social in Justice and Marginalization
Social Injustice
Toni cade Bambara have contributed immensely to fighting justices for black community who have been subjected to all kind of racism oppression and many more this article came out the right time to reflect people’s mind on some of the burning issues especially in forms of oppression have led to a lack of representation and recognition for black women’s contributions to society. Moreover, these issues have also led to a lack of access to resources such as education, healthcare, and employment.
marginalization
she was deeply committed to using her writing as mean of promoting social change and advocating for the empowerment of African – American who have been marginalized, she uses her influence on counter those.
Bambara wrote extensively throughout her life to use her writing influence to promote social justice and challenge oppressive system and inspire individual to take any action overcome injustice. (Ikard, David)
II. The Power of Speaking Vernacular
A. Expressing oneself and resisting dominant norms.
This article focus mainly about the important to speaking vernacular within the black community and Speaking vernacular is important because it allows individuals to express themselves resist dominant cultural norms that perpetuate social injustice and gender inequality and according Nelson Mandela he said, If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head ,but if you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart”.
And I think that was what Bambara was trying to emphasis through her career as an activist.
B. Connecting with cultural heritage and identity.
The use of vernacular language was important to her because it allowed her to represent the voice experience of African American people in her writing.
She also believes that the dominant culture’s language and literature did not reflect the experience marginalized communities.
Finally, I believe speaking vernacular can also help individuals connect with their cultural heritage and identity, which is important for building a sense of community and belonging (Ensslen, Klaus.)
III. THE IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION.
Overcoming obstacles caused by inequality and poverty.
The important of education is something which is very key in the article, because education can empower and individual to overcome most of obstacles create by inequality and poverty.
overall empowerment I think empowerment is key factor that author is trying to surface, because once empowerment take place every individual will able productive. ( Cartwright, Jerome)
Miss Moore as a symbol of transformative power of education
The reason I said education is the only way out the article has revealed miss Moore, who accompanies children on their trip and challenge them to think critically about the economic and social reality of their lives, serves as a symbol of transformative power of education.
This story has emphasis the important to education and Bambara believe and through her influence she believes that in other to fight against injustice within black community especially among African American is only through education.
IV. FEMINISM
Bambara’s involvement in the feminist movement
Toni Cade Bambara, an important black feminist foremother who was involved in feminism and civil rights activism throughout in which she made great impact on valuable resource for anyone interested in the history of the feminist movement and the ongoing struggle for social justice.
Her movement paved way for many feminists especially the black people.
Giving voice to the experiences of Black women
Moreover, this article has given opportunity Bambara to emphasizes the important of intersectionality in feminism, because Bambara’s work in a variety of contexts, including her involvement in the civil rights movement, her literary output, and her contributions to black feminist theory.
The article also high lights that the black women have traditionally excluded from feminist movement and face all kind of oppression and she use her writing to give voice to the. experience of black women and to challenge mainstream narrative that silence their voices.(Guy-Sheftall )
V. CONCLUSION
, In conclusion, social injustice and marginalization continues to be the major part of issues in our Toni Cade Bambara’s life experience, involvement in various social and political causes, and work as an educator and activist all contributed to her writing, which is celebrated for its exploration of African American cultures, language, and identity as well as its focus on social justice and political activism.
Through her work, Bambara has helped pave the way for a generation of feminists and has provided an important example of how speaking vernacular can be used as a form of cultural restoration and empowerment.
Expression and cultural preservation and feminism is a vital movement that seek to address the systemic inequalities that women face on daily basis.
Feminism and work towards more inclusive and diverse movement that address the need and experience of every woman.
WORK CITED
Cartwright, Jerome. “Bambara’s ‘The Lesson.’.” Short Story Criticism, edited by Jelena Krstovic, vol. 107, Gale, 2008. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1420080484/LitRC?u=atla29738&sid=bookmark-LitRC&xid=8bf4e394. Accessed 13 Apr. 2023. Originally published in The Explicator, vol. 47, no. 3, Spring 1989, pp. 61-64.
Dubey, Madhu. “Bambara, Toni Cade (1939-1995).” African American Writers, edited by Valerie Smith, 2nd ed., vol. 1, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2001, pp. 15-31. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX1387200011/LitRC?u=atla29738&sid=bookmark-LitRC&xid=a5354a73. Accessed 13 Apr. 2023.
Ensslen, Klaus. “Toni Cade Bambara: Gorilla, My Love (1971).” Short Stories for Students, vol. 21, Gale, 2005.
Guy-Sheftall, Beverly. “Toni Cade Bambara, Black Feminist Foremother.” Savoring the Salt: The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara, edited by Linda Janet Holmes and Cheryl A. Wall, Temple University Press, 2008, pp. 115-26 JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt14bt0dw.18.
Ikard, David. “So Much of What We Know, ain’t so the Other Gender in Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters.” Obsidian III Literature in the African Diaspora, vol. 4, no. 1 2002, pp. 76-100.
