Title How Three Black Women Writers Combined Spiritual and Sensual Love : Rhetorically Transcending the Boundaries of Language (Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, and Dionne Brand)

Published Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (125 pages) Contents HOW THREE BLACK WOMEN WRITERS COMBINED SPIRITUAL AND SENSUAL LOVE: Rhetorically Transcending the Boundaries of Language (Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, and Dionne Brand); Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chapter One -- Africana Women Writers and the Erotic; Chapter Two -- Lesbian Eros and Narrative in Audre Lorde's Zami; Chapter Three -- Sensual Narrative in Toni Morrison's Jazz; Chapter Four -- Framing History in Dionne Brand's At the Full and Change of the Moon; Chapter Five -- Erotic Subjectivity and Africana Women Writers; Works Cited; Index Summary This is a study of women writers of the African Diaspora and their articulation of the erotic as an important aspect of human experience beyond the limits and expectations of society. Within the imaginary scope of the works of Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, and Dionne Brand, the erotic is made manifest through rewriting narrative and poetic form Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Lorde, Audre -- Criticism and interpretation Morrison, Toni -- Criticism and interpretation Brand, Dionne, 1953- -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Brand, Dionne, 1953- fast Lorde, Audre fast Morrison, Toni fast Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism African diaspora in literature. Love in literature. Sex in literature. Eroticism in literature. Women, Black, in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. African diaspora in literature American literature -- African American authors American literature -- Women authors Eroticism in literature Love in literature Sex in literature Women, Black, in literature English. Languages & Literatures. American Literature. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780773429994 0773429999

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