Title The daughter's return : African-American and Caribbean women's fictions of history / Caroline Rody

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (x, 267 pages) Contents Contents; Introduction: The Daughter's Return; 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; 3. Further Adventures of the Magic Black Daughter; 4. Caribbean Women's Literature and the Mother 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; 7. Crossing Water: Maryse Condé's I, Tituba and the Horizontal Plot; Notes Works CitedIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z Summary 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", and Maryse Conde's "I, Tituba", "magical" black daughters return to sites of trauma through visions, dreams, and memories. Rody reads these texts as allegorical expressions of the desire of writers newly emerging into cultural authority to reclaim their difficult inheritance, and finds a counter-plot of heroines' encounters with women of other racial and ethnic groups running through these works Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-258) and index Notes Print version record Subject American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism Caribbean fiction (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism Literature and history -- English-speaking countries Women and literature -- English-speaking countries African American women -- Intellectual life Women and literature -- Caribbean Area Women and literature -- United States African American women in literature. Mothers and daughters in literature. Daughters in literature. Return in literature. Women in literature. American fiction -- History and criticism Women and literature -- History -- 20th century Literature and history -- History -- 20th century American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature -- Women authors American fiction 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 Genre/Form History Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 1429403977 9781429403979 1280531045 9781280531040 9780195350036 0195350030

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