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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825605003321

Titolo

Reclaiming home, remembering motherhood, rewriting history : African American and Afro-Caribbean women's literature in the twentieth century / / edited by Verena Theile and Marie Drews

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars, 2009

ISBN

1-282-48113-4

9786612481130

1-4438-1047-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (327 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TheileVerena

DrewsMarie

Disciplina

810.9896073

Soggetti

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

American literature - Women authors - History and criticism

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

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

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Caribbean literature (English) - 20th century - History and criticism

Women in literature

African Americans in literature

Black people in literature

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 (p. [275]-294) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Reclaiming home -- pt. II. Remembering motherhood -- pt. III. Rewriting history.

Sommario/riassunto

Reclaiming Home, Remembering Motherhood, Rewriting History: African American and Afro-Caribbean Women's Literature in the Twentieth Century offers a critical valuation of literature composed by black female writers and examines their projects of reclamation, rememory, and revision. As a collection, it engages black women writers' efforts to create more inclusive conceptualizations of community, gender, and history, conceptualizations that take into account alternate lived and written experien...