Title Africanism and authenticity in African-American women's novels / Amy K. Levin

Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (204 pages) Contents Otherness and the black mask -- Metaphor and maternity in Mama Day -- Clearing space : dramas of liminality and initiation in Morrison's novels -- Mother as colony, colony as mother : Jamaica Kincaid and cultural dislocation -- Alice Walker and the ethics of possession -- The violation of voice : revising the slave narrative -- Ghostwriting : authenticity and appropriation in Family and Beloved -- "We wasn't nothing" : leadership and vision in Dessa Rose -- African (re)sisters : rhetoric, representation, and liberation in Alice Walker's works -- A call finds its response : African women and African-American women writers Summary ''A groundbreaking work that links the lives and culture of African-American women to those of their African sisters. ... Levin completes the circle of these women's lives and histories by tracing their experiences from Africa to America and back Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-197) and index Notes Print version record Subject American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism African American women -- Intellectual life American fiction -- African influences African American women in literature. African Americans in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. African American women in literature African American women -- Intellectual life African Americans in literature American fiction American fiction -- African American authors American fiction -- African influences American fiction -- Women authors Literature Women and literature SUBJECT Africa -- In literature Subject Africa United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780813031347 0813031346

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