Close kin and distant relatives : the paradox of respectability in Black women's literature

Close kin and distant relatives the paradox of respectability in Black women's literature

Introduction-Family mattersA 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...

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1. Verfasser: Morris, Susana M. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Charlottesville u.a. University of Virginia Press 2014
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American fiction > African American authors > Women authors > Women and literature > History > Families in literature > Politics and literature > African Americans > Intellectual life > African Americans in literature > USA > Literatur > Frau > Schwarze > Familie
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction-Family mattersA 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.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:X, 178 S.
24 cm
ISBN:9780813935508
978-0-8139-3550-8
9780813935492
978-0-8139-3549-2