ABSTRACT
The Africana womanist, focusing on her particular circumstances, comes from an entirely different perspective, one that embraces the concept of a collective struggle for the entire family in its overall struggle for liberation survival, thereby resolving the question of her place in the venue of women’s issues. To be sure, she approaches her complex realities from an Africana womanist perspective as reflected in both her life and in her literature. Today, Africana women must insist that (as their reality has demonstrated) they are equal partners in a relationship in which passive female subjugation neither was nor is the norm in their community. According to Morrison in “What the Black Woman Thinks About Women’s Lib”: for years black women accepted that rage, even regarded that acceptance as their unpleasant duty. To be sure, the chief role of the Africana woman is to aid in bringing to fruition the liberation of her entire race.
