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Author Holloway, Karla F. C., 1949-

Title Moorings & metaphors : figures of culture and gender in Black women's literature / Karla F.C. Holloway
Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1992

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Description 1 online resource (x, 218 pages) : illustrations
Contents A critical consideration of voice, gender, and culture -- The novel politics of literary interpretation -- Revision and (re)membrance : recursive structures in literature -- Revision and (re)membrance : recursive structures in language -- Mythologies -- The idea of ancestry : African-American writers -- Visions of the goddess : West African writers -- Spirituals and praisesongs : telling testimonies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-207) and index
Notes English
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Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
West African literature (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Comparative literature -- American and West African (English)
Comparative literature -- West African (English) and American
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Women and literature -- Africa, West -- History -- 20th century
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
African American women in literature.
Women, Black, in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Myth in literature.
Metaphor.
metaphor.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
African American women in literature
American literature
American literature -- African American authors
American literature -- Women authors
Metaphor
Myth in literature
Sex role in literature
West African literature (English) -- Women authors
Women and literature
Women, Black, in literature
West Africa
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585002657
9780585002651
0813557585
9780813557588
Other Titles Moorings and metaphors