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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777833503321

Titolo

Cultural sites of critical insight [[electronic resource] ] : philosophy, aesthetics, and African American and Native American women's writings / / edited by Angela L. Cotten and Christa Davis Acampora

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2007

ISBN

0-7914-8057-7

1-4294-6570-0

Descrizione fisica

viii, 216 p

Altri autori (Persone)

AcamporaChrista Davis <1967->

CottenAngela L. <1968->

Disciplina

810.9/928708996073

Soggetti

African American women authors - Aesthetics

African American women in literature

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

American literature - Indian authors - History and criticism

American literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Feminism in literature

Indian women authors - Aesthetics

Indian women in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-205) and index.

Nota di contenuto

On the "res" and in the "hood" : making cultures, leaving legacies / Angela L. Cotten -- Self-help, Indian style? Paula Gunn Allen's Grandmothers of the light, womanist self-recovery and the politics of transformation / Ana Louise Keating -- Making the awakening hers : Phiillis Wheatley and the transposition of African spirituality to Christian religiosity / Elizabeth J. West -- "Any woman's blues" : Sherley Anne WIlliams and the blues aesthetic / Michael A. Antonucci -- Through the mirror : re-Surfacing and self-articulation in Linda Hogan's Solar storms / Ellen L. Arnold -- Red-black center of Alice Walker's Meridian : asserting a Cherokee womanist sensibility / Barbara S. Tracy -- Womanist interventions in historical materialism / Angela L. Cotten -- "Both the law and its transgression" : Toni Morrison's Paradise and



"post"-Black feminism / Noelle Morrissette -- Luci Tapahonso's "Leda and the cowboy" : a gynocratic, Navajo response to Yeats's "Leda and the swan" / Maggie Romigh -- Mother times two : a double take on a gynocentric justice song / Margot R. Reynolds.