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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Billingslea-Brown, Alma Jean, 1946-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, ©1999.
Subjects:
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
African American women > Intellectual life.
Literature and folklore > United States.
Women and literature > United States.
African American women in literature.
African Americans in literature.
African American women artists.
African Americans > Folklore.
African American art.
Folklore in art.
Roman américain > Auteurs noirs américains > Histoire et critique.
Noires américaines > Vie intellectuelle.
Littérature et folklore > États-Unis.
Femmes et littérature > États-Unis.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
Femmes artistes noires américaines.
Noirs américains > Folklore.
Art noir américain.
Folklore dans l'art.
18.06 Anglo-American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
African American art
African American women artists
African American women in literature
African American women > Intellectual life
African Americans
African Americans in literature
American fiction > African American authors
American fiction > Women authors
Folklore in art
Literature and folklore
Women and literature
Frauenliteratur
Kunst
Schwarze
Schwarze Frau
Volkscultuur.
Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Vrouwelijke kunstenaars.
Amerikaans.
Littérature américaine > Femmes écrivains > Histoire et critique.
Noirs américains > Dans la littérature.
Folklore > Dans l'art.
United States
USA
Schwärze
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Folklore
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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