Africanism and authenticity in African-American women's novels:
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Main Author: Levin, Amy K. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Gainesville University Press of Florida c2003
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-197) and index
Otherness and the black mask -- Metaphor and maternity in Mama Day -- Clearing space : dramas of liminality and initiation in Morrison's novels -- Mother as colony, colony as mother : Jamaica Kincaid and cultural dislocation -- Alice Walker and the ethics of possession -- The violation of voice : revising the slave narrative -- Ghostwriting : authenticity and appropriation in Family and Beloved -- "We wasn't nothing" : leadership and vision in Dessa Rose -- African (re)sisters : rhetoric, representation, and liberation in Alice Walker's works -- A call finds its response : African women and African-American women writers
''A groundbreaking work that links the lives and culture of African-American women to those of their African sisters. . . . Levin completes the circle of these women's lives and histories by tracing their experiences from Africa to America and back
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (204 p.)
ISBN:0813026318
0813031346
9780813031347

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