| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 216 pages) |
| Series |
Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
On the "res" and in the "hood" : making cultures, leaving legacies / Angela L. Cotten -- Self-help, Indian style? Paula Gunn Allen's Grandmothers of the light, womanist self-recovery and the politics of transformation / Ana Louise Keating -- Making the awakening hers : Phiillis Wheatley and the transposition of African spirituality to Christian religiosity / Elizabeth J. West -- "Any woman's blues" : Sherley Anne WIlliams and the blues aesthetic / Michael A. Antonucci -- Through the mirror : re-Surfacing and self-articulation in Linda Hogan's Solar storms / Ellen L. Arnold -- Red-black center of Alice Walker's Meridian : asserting a Cherokee womanist sensibility / Barbara S. Tracy -- Womanist interventions in historical materialism / Angela L. Cotten -- "Both the law and its transgression" : Toni Morrison's Paradise and "post"-Black feminism / Noelle Morrissette -- Luci Tapahonso's "Leda and the cowboy" : a gynocratic, Navajo response to Yeats's "Leda and the swan" / Maggie Romigh -- Mother times two : a double take on a gynocentric justice song / Margot R. Reynolds |
| Summary |
"Bringing together criticism on both African American and Native American women writers, this book offers fresh perspectives on art and beauty, truth, justice, community, and the making of a good and happy life."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-205) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
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American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism
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American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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African American women authors -- Aesthetics
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Indian women authors -- Aesthetics
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African American women in literature.
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Indian women in literature.
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Feminism in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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African American women in literature
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American literature -- African American authors
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American literature -- Indian authors
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American literature -- Women authors
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Feminism in literature
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Indian women in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cotten, Trystan T., 1968-
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Acampora, Christa Davis, 1967-
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| LC no. |
2006009009 |
| ISBN |
9781429465700 |
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1429465700 |
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0791469794 |
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9780791469798 |
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0791469808 |
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9780791469804 |
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0791480577 |
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9780791480571 |
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