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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524660603321

Titolo

Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History : Migration and Identity in Black Women's Literature / / edited by Elizabeth Brown-Guillory

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2006

©2006

ISBN

0-8142-7234-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 201 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Brown-GuilloryElizabeth

Disciplina

820.9/9287/09171241

Soggetti

Women in literature

Emigration and immigration in literature

Identity (Psychology) in literature

Women and literature - English-speaking countries - History - 20th century

Commonwealth literature (English) - Black authors - History and criticism

Commonwealth literature (English) - Women authors - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-197) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Conflicting identities in the women of Ama Ata Aidoo's drama and fiction / Violet Harrington Bryan -- Coming to voice: navigating the interstices in plays by Winsome Pinnock / DeLinda Marzette -- Migration, transformation, and identity formation in Buchi Emecheta's In the ditch and Kehinde / Romanus Muoneke -- Gloria Naylor's north/south dichotomy and the reversal of the middle passage : juxtaposed migrations within Mama Day / Kathryn M. Paterson -- Reconfiguring self: a matter of place in selected novels by Paule Marshall / Marie Foster Gnage -- "What a history you have": ancestral memory, cultural history, migration patterns, and the quest for autonomy in the fiction of Jamaica Kincaid / Julia De Foor Jay -- "Tee,", "Cyn-Cyn," "Cynthia," "Dou-dou": remembering and forgetting the



"true-true name" in Merle Hodge's Crick crack, monkey / Joyce Zonana -- Place and displacement in Djanet Sears's Harlem duet and The adventures of a black girl in search of god / Elizabeth Brown-Guillory -- Recovering the past: transatlantic migration, hybrid identities, and healing in Tess Onwueme's The missing face / Juluette Bartlett-Pack.