The (In)visibility of Black Female Pain in Robbie McCauley’s Sally’s Rape

Amany Mahmoud El-Sawy

(Faculty of Education, Alexandria University, Egypt)

Abstract: The invisibility of black female pain has long been an issue people of African/descent have had to grapple/with. Robbie McCauley’s Sally’s Rape is very significant in the effort to make black women’s pain more visible. It overcomes the cultural structures that would consider black female pain insignificant. This is why visibility/in reference to the historical lack of/acknowledgement of black female pain is essential in the effort to deal with the open/wound in the black female body politic. Thus, this paper attempts to bring to the fore the black female pain which has been often dismissed, ignored and constituted an open/wound in the black female body politic. McCauley’s Sally’s Rape brings attention to black female pain, and it offers a historical/context for the blitz/of the devaluation of black female pain in the West. Additionally, it exhumes the pained black female body and places it in a contemporary context in order to address the ongoing impact of the past/wounds endured by black women.

Key words: Afro-alienation, Black Female Body, dehumanization, pain, scar, subjectivity