Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction-Family matters
  • A wide confraternity: diaspora and family in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the widow
  • Sins of the mother?: ambivalence, agency, and the family romance in Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John
  • Daughters of this land: genealogies of resistance in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory
  • The language of family: talking back to narratives of Black pathology in Sapphire's Push
  • Epilogue.