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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451275503321

Autore

Rody Caroline <1960->

Titolo

The daughter's return [[electronic resource] ] : African-American and Caribbean women's fictions of history / / Caroline Rody

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001

ISBN

1-280-53104-5

0-19-535003-0

1-4294-0397-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Disciplina

813.009/9287/08996073

Soggetti

African American women in literature

African American women - Intellectual life

American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism

American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

Caribbean fiction (English) - Women authors - History and criticism

Daughters in literature

Literature and history - English-speaking countries

Mothers and daughters in literature

Return in literature

Women and literature - Caribbean Area

Women and literature - English-speaking countries

Women and literature - United States

Women in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: The Daughter's Return; 1. Toni Morrison's Beloved: History, ""Rememory"", and a ""Clamor for a Kiss""; 2. Adventures of the Magic Black Daughter: History and ""Renaissance"" in Contemporary African-American Women's Fictions; 3. Further Adventures of the Magic Black Daughter; 4. Caribbean Women's Literature and the Mother of History; 5. Burning Down the House:



Daughterly Revision in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea; 6. Decolonizing Jamaica's Daughter: Learning History in the Novels of Michelle Cliff; 7. Crossing Water: Maryse CondeĢ's I, Tituba and the Horizontal Plot

NotesWorks Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

This work offers an analysis of an emerging genre in African-American and Caribbean fiction: the novels of black women writers who have returned to their ancestral past. Novels such as Toni Morrison's ""Beloved"" and Jean Rhys' ""Wide Sargasso Sea"" are assessed.