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Daughter's Return : African-American and Caribbean Women's Fictions of History.
This work offers an analysis of an emerging genre in African-American and Caribbean fiction: the novels of black women writers who have returned to their ancestral past. In novels like Toni Morrison's ""Beloved"", Jean Rhys' ""Wide Sargasso Sea"", an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford University Press,
2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The Daughter's Return; PART I: AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS; 1. Toni Morrison's Beloved: History, ""Rememory"", and a ""Clamor for a Kiss""; 2. Adventures of the Magic Black Daughter: History and ""Renaissance"" in Contemporary African-American Women's Fictions; Mothering the Renaissance; Return of the Magic Black Daughter; 3. Further Adventures of the Magic Black Daughter; One Dark Body; Variations on Childbirth; Coda; PART II: CARIBBEAN WOMEN WRITERS; 4. Caribbean Women's Literature and the Mother of History; Recovering the Mother-Island.
- The Caribbean Daughter's ReturnJamaica Kincaid and the Maternal Void of History; 5. Burning Down the House: Daughterly Revision in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea; 6. Decolonizing Jamaica's Daughter: Learning History in the Novels of Michelle Cliff; The Novel as Abeng; Becoming History: No Telephone to Heaven; 7. Crossing Water: Maryse Condé's I, Tituba and the Horizontal Plot; Epilogue: History, Horizontality, and the Postcolonial Hester Prynne: On Condé, Mukherjee, and Morrison; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z.