Arms akimbo : Africana women in contemporary literature /

"In an examination of the fiction of contemporary women writers of the African Diaspora, these writers engage important texts from writers in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States, largely ignored by mainstream literary scholars. They employ fresh and poignant critical perspectives acces...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Liddell, Janice, Kemp, Yakini Belinda
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©1999.
Temas:
1900-1999
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Caribbean literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > Caribbean Area > History > 20th century.
Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
African literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > Africa > History > 20th century.
African American women in literature.
Women, Black, in literature.
Femmes et littérature > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Femmes et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Écrits de femmes américains > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et littérature > Afrique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noires dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
African American women in literature
African literature > Women authors
American literature > African American authors
American literature > Women authors
Caribbean literature > Women authors
Women and literature
Women, Black, in literature
English.
Languages & Literatures.
American Literature.
Africa
Caribbean Area
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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  • Psychic rage and response: the enslaved and the enslaver in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose / Emma Waters-Dawson
  • Voyages beyond lust and lactation: the climacteric as seen in novels by Sylvia Wynter, Beryl Gilroy, and Paule Marshall / Janice Lee Liddell
  • A woman's art; a woman's craft: the self in Ntozake Shange's Sassafras, cypress, and indigo / Carol Marsh-Lockett
  • Coming home to herself: autonomy and self-conversion in Flora Nwapa's One is enough / Australia Tarver
  • When difference is not the dilemma: the black woman couple in African American women's fiction / Yakini B. Kemp
  • "Devouring gods" and "Sacrificial animals": The male-female relationship in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: a love story / Wei-hsiung (Kitty) Wu
  • Snapshots of childhood life in Jamaica Kincaid's fiction / Brenda F. Berrian
  • Fire and ice: the socioeconomics of romantic love in Elizabeth Nunez-Harrell's When rocks dance / Thelma B. Thompson-Deloatch
  • Agents of pain and redemption in Sapphire's Push / Janice Lee Liddell
  • Romantic love and the individual in novels by Mariama B,́ Buchi Emecheta, and Bessie Head / Yakini B. Kemp
  • The politics of exile: Ama Ata Aidoo's Our sister Killjoy / Gay Wilentz
  • "Sense make befoh book": Grenadian popular culture and the rhetoric of revolution in Merle Collins's Angel and the Colour of forgetting / Carolyn Cooper
  • Meditations on her/story: Maryse Conde's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem and the slave narrative tradition / Paula C. Barnes
  • Guyana's historical sociology and the novels of Beryl Gilroy and Grace Nichols / Erna Brodber
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