ZZ Packer's Drinking coffee elsewhere: a serius attempt at representing the diversity of th African-American experience
| dc.contributor.author | Ibarrola Armendariz, Aitor | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-30T08:38:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-30T08:38:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2026-07-30T08:38:06Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Racial and ethnic minority writers have only rarely paid any attention to the in-group diversity that one habitually finds in sociological surveys and statistics that classify results according to racial categories. ZZ Packer’s collection of short stories Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (2003) presents us with a set of mostly African-American female characters who, despite sharing the overt difference of their skin color, reveal a much wider range of “otherness” or alterity as they have to grapple with the boundaries that age, class, education, religion or family background mark out for them. The aim of this article is to show how Packer succeeds in transcending many of the age-old archetypes often used to analyze characters in texts by black women writers–e.g., the conjurer, the fallen woman, the freedom- ghter, etc. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Los escritores pertenecientes a distintas minorías étnicas solo prestan atención en contadas ocasiones a la enorme diversidad que se observa en las estadísticas y estudios sociológicos dentro de cada grupo. La recopilación de relatos Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (2003) de ZZ Packer nos muestra las experiencias de jóvenes afro-americanas que, además de compartir el rasgo distintivo del color de su piel, tienen que luchar también con las barreras impuestas por otros tipos de “alteridad” ligada a su edad, clase social, educación o religión. El objetivo principal de este artículo es demostrar que la autora consigue trascender en sus relatos los ya clásicos arquetipos que se utilizan para estudiar a los personajes femeninos en este tipo de ficción, tales como el de la hechicera, la mujer descarriada, la activista, etc. | es |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (HUM2006-04919) | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Ibarrola Armendariz, A. (2011). ZZ Packer's Drinking coffee elsewhere: a serius attempt at representing the diversity of th African-American experience. Odisea: Revista de estudios ingleses, 12, 137-148. https://doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i12.229 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.25115/odisea.v0i12.229 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1578-3820 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/6439 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Universidad de Almería, Servicio de Publicaciones | |
| dc.subject.other | African-American literature | |
| dc.subject.other | Short story | |
| dc.subject.other | ZZ Packer | |
| dc.subject.other | Social categories | |
| dc.subject.other | Diversity | |
| dc.subject.other | Archetypes and stereotypes | |
| dc.subject.other | Literatura afro-americana | |
| dc.subject.other | Relato corto | |
| dc.subject.other | Categorías sociales | |
| dc.subject.other | Diversidad | |
| dc.subject.other | Arquetipos y estereotipos | |
| dc.title | ZZ Packer's Drinking coffee elsewhere: a serius attempt at representing the diversity of th African-American experience | en |
| dc.title.alternative | Drinking Coffee Elsewhere de ZZ Packer: un intento de representar con rigor la diversidad de la experiencia afroamericana | es |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dcterms.accessRights | open access | |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 148 | |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 137 | |
| oaire.citation.title | Odisea: Revista de estudios ingleses | |
| oaire.citation.volume | 12 | |
| oaire.licenseCondition | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
| oaire.version | VoR |
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