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Mother imagery in the novels of Afro-Caribbean women /

"Focusing on specific texts by Jamaica Kincaid, Maryse Conde, and Paule Marshall, this study explores the intricate trichotomous relationship between the mother (biological or surrogate), the motherlands Africa and the Caribbean, and the mothercountry represented by England, France, and/or Nort...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Alexander, Simone A. James, 1967-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2001.
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Table des matières:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Reclaiming Identities: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers Writing the Self
  • 1. Resisting Zombification: (Re)Writing/Righting the Literary Canon
  • 2. I Am Me, I Am You: The Intricate Mother-Daughter Dyadic Relationship
  • 3. Imagined Homelands: Engendering a Mythic Return "Home"
  • 4. "An/Other Way of Knowing Things": Ancestral Line(age), Revalidating Our Ancestral Inheritances
  • 5. "Call[ing] Your Nation": A Journey Completed.