Blog Post #2 - Literary Theory Feminist Perspective

While reading "The Book of Negros" by Lawrence Hill, it has been quite obvious that the literary theory of a feminist perspective is one of the main literary theories. Starting with having the main character and the perspective of the story being a women back in the 1800s. A women named Aminata who was taken as a slave by white men from her village where women were treated with a little bit more respect than majority of places. After the capture we see how cruel the men were to the women when Aminata is raped , has her head shaved and her baby is sold by Appleby. It shows how strong of a women Aminata is to be able to overcome all the hardships and leads others and inspires them as well. On the way to America, the women were treated a lot better by those who captured them than the men were, although the women were still used as sexual objects it was the still improvement from how they were before. Most of the women were never educated either, especially as a slave. The fact that Aminata took it upon herself to meet someone who was willing to teach her to read and write really shows how she turns a negative into a positive.