Anne, the white woman in contemporary African-American fiction archetypes, stereotypes and characterizations
by Anna Maria Chupa
Category: Literary Criticism

This work combines Jungian analysis with certain West African religious principles in an examination of fictional characterizations of white women in African-American literature. Taking neither a purely African nor Western approach to the material, the author offers analyses of white women as the terrible mother, the bitch goddess, the seductress, the initiator, the femme fatale, the benevolent witch, and the confidant. Both the particular stereotypes of white women and their mythic roles are explored, in terms of both social and mythical archetypes.