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Crossing borders through folklore : African American women's fiction and art /

Examining works by Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Faith Ringgold, and Betye Saar, this innovative book frames black women's aesthetic sensibilities across art forms. Investigating the relationship between vernacular folk culture and formal expression, this study establishes how each of the four...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Billingslea-Brown, Alma Jean, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, ©1999.
Temas:
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Folklore and the borderland of the sixties
  • Folk magic, women, and identity
  • Reclaiming and re-creating Africa: folklore and the "return to the source"
  • Folklore as performance and communion.