Maud Martha: A Discussion of the Character's Self-Loathing and Obsession with Eurocentric Standards of Beauty



Maud Martha: A Discussion of the Character's Self-Loathing and Obsession with Eurocentric Standards of Beauty

Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks, "Maud Martha" and Societal Perception of Skin Deep Beauty" was spurned by members of her own race because she lacked social or athletic abilities, a light skin, and good grade hair." (Galegroup.com)Gwendolyn Brooks throughout her life had to deal with this belief that black is not beautiful. The overcastting notion that an African American woman that has "Negro features" is not beautiful is confronted in her novel "Maud Martha". ...