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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Billingslea-Brown, Alma Jean, 1946-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, ©1999.
Sujets:
USA
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.