Title Multi-ethnicity as a resource for the literary imagination : the creative achievements of women artists, poets, and novelists / Pamela J. Rader ; with a foreword by Pamela J. Albert

Published Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [2009] ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (iii, 145 pages) Contents Reading twins and two-spirit characters in The woman who owned the shadows and Almanac of the dead -- Sor Juana, la malinche, Guadalupe, and the santera: iconoclastic revisions of the feminine -- The new spirit child: Africanisms in Beloved and Daughters of the dust -- Haiti's exiled daughters: migrations in the writings of Edwidge Danticat and Myriam J.A. Chancy Summary Through an analysis of culturally specific constructions of gender and spirituality in the verbal and visual texts, this study reveals syncretic presences and a new paradigm for reading. Furthermore, this project argues that these women create and install cultural citizenship, which proposes alternatives to postcolonial and global feminist paradigms Notes "Paula Gunn Allen, Myriam Chancy, Edwidge Danticat, Julie Dash, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Toni Morrison, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Carmen Tafolla." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Ethnicity in literature. Multiculturalism in literature. Minority women in literature. Feminism in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature -- Minority authors American literature -- Women authors Ethnicity in literature Feminism in literature Minority women in literature Multiculturalism in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780773407411 0773407413

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