Title Close Kin and Distant Relatives : the Paradox of Respectability in Black Women's Literature

Published University of Virginia Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction-Family matters -- A wide confraternity: diaspora and family in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the widow -- Sins of the mother?: ambivalence, agency, and the family romance in Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John -- Daughters of this land: genealogies of resistance in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory -- The language of family: talking back to narratives of Black pathology in Sapphire's Push -- Epilogue Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century Families in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- African American. American fiction -- African American authors American fiction -- Women authors Families in literature Women and literature United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780813935515 0813935512 1306428653 9781306428651 9780813935492 0813935490 9780813935508 0813935504

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