black white and jewish by rebecca walker

In short, fiction is a fictive production while nonfiction is based on reality. In other words, nonfictional work overtly expresses the actual or historical facts or acts that have truly occurred in a person or human past. Fiction is based on the imaginary and creative productions that mirror the society while nonfiction can be regarded as a literary work that is specialized in real facts writing. These two great literary categories are fiction and nonfiction. Indeed, literature encompasses two great categories in which every artistic work may identify itself with.

INTRODUCTION The field of literature is so vague and complex that things fall apart explicitly as well as implicitly like in the postmodern perspective.

Finally, it tries to establish to what extent the author succeeds in conveying her post-identity message in the memoir. In particular, this article explains how Rebecca Walker’s memoir makes clear that a cosmopolitan rework of identity based on the idea of performativity and hybridity can provide a good alternative to multicultural categories, reshaping the very idea of identity by the complete abandon of essentialism and encouraging misrepresented subjects to seek for support beyond the national (cultural) boundaries. Through an analysis of Rebecca Walker’s “Black, White and Jewish – Autobiography of a Shifting Self” in light of Judith Butler’s theory of gender performativity, this article bridges over Walker’s idea of performative ethnicity, mixed-race claims and new cosmopolitan suggestions. Mixed-race autobiography often displays stories where individuals who feel excluded by the multicultural framework of racial representation based on color and cultural purity and advocate hybridity as a cultural choice and unmask the baselessness of any supposed racial authenticity.

Black white and jewish by rebecca walker