Daughter's Return : African-American and Caribbean Women's Fictions of History.

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This work offers an analysis of an emerging genre in African-American and Caribbean fiction: the novels of black women writers who have returned to their ancestral past. In novels like Toni Morrison's ""Beloved"", Jean Rhys' ""Wide Sargasso Sea"", an...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rody, Caroline
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cary : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
African American women in literature.
African American women > Intellectual life.
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Caribbean fiction (English) > Women authors > History and criticism.
Daughters in literature.
Literature and history > English-speaking countries.
Mothers and daughters in literature.
Return in literature.
Women and literature > Caribbean Area.
Women and literature > English-speaking countries.
Women and literature > United States.
Women in literature.
Noires américaines > Vie intellectuelle.
Roman américain > Auteurs noirs américains > Histoire et critique.
Filles dans la littérature.
Littérature et histoire > Anglophonie.
Mères et filles dans la littérature.
Retour dans la littérature.
Femmes et littérature > Caraïbes (Région)
Femmes et littérature > Anglophonie.
Femmes et littérature > États-Unis.
Femmes dans la littérature.
African American women in literature
African American women > Intellectual life
American fiction > African American authors
American fiction > Women authors
Daughters in literature
Literature and history
Mothers and daughters in literature
Return in literature
Women and literature
Women in literature
Caribbean Area
English-speaking countries
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Daughter's Return; PART I: AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS; 1. Toni Morrison's Beloved: History, ""Rememory"", and a ""Clamor for a Kiss""; 2. Adventures of the Magic Black Daughter: History and ""Renaissance"" in Contemporary African-American Women's Fictions; Mothering the Renaissance; Return of the Magic Black Daughter; 3. Further Adventures of the Magic Black Daughter; One Dark Body; Variations on Childbirth; Coda; PART II: CARIBBEAN WOMEN WRITERS; 4. Caribbean Women's Literature and the Mother of History; Recovering the Mother-Island.
  • The Caribbean Daughter's ReturnJamaica Kincaid and the Maternal Void of History; 5. Burning Down the House: Daughterly Revision in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea; 6. Decolonizing Jamaica's Daughter: Learning History in the Novels of Michelle Cliff; The Novel as Abeng; Becoming History: No Telephone to Heaven; 7. Crossing Water: Maryse Condé's I, Tituba and the Horizontal Plot; Epilogue: History, Horizontality, and the Postcolonial Hester Prynne: On Condé, Mukherjee, and Morrison; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z.

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