Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature : From Phillis Wheatley to Toni Morrison /

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Geneva Cobb Moore deftly combines literature, history, criticism, and theory in Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature by offering insight into the historical black experience from slavery to freedom as depicted in the literature of nine female writers across several...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Moore, Geneva Cobb (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Billingsley, Andrew (writer of foreword.)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
African American women in literature.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Foreword / Andrew Billingsley
  • Preface and acknowledgments
  • Introduction : signs of regeneration in African American women's literature
  • part one. Slavery and abolitionism, freedom and Jim Crow America
  • 1. Phillis Wheatley's seminaked body as symbol and metaphor
  • 2. Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl : a Freudian reading of neurotic and sexed bodies
  • 3. The maternal ideal : the journals of Charlotte Forten Grimké
  • 4. Antiblack aesthetics : Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jim Crow America
  • part two. A conflation of history, past and present
  • 5. Maternal imprinting : Paule Marshall and the mother-daughter dyad
  • 6. The phallic maternal : Alice Walker's novels of archetypal symbolism
  • 7. Bodily evidence : Toni Morrison's demonic parody of racism and slavery
  • Afterword.

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