The grasp that reaches beyond the grave [[electronic resource] ] : the ancestral call in black women's texts / / Venetria K. Patton
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| Autore: |
Patton Venetria K. <1968->
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| Titolo: |
The grasp that reaches beyond the grave [[electronic resource] ] : the ancestral call in black women's texts / / Venetria K. Patton
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| Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/928708996073 |
| Soggetto topico: | American literature - African American authors - History and criticism |
| American literature - African influences | |
| African American women - Intellectual life - 20th century | |
| African Americans in literature | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: Revising the legacy of kinlessness through elders and ancestors -- Othermothers as elders and culture bearers in Daughters of the dust and The salt eaters -- Ancestral prodding in Praisesong for the widow -- Ancestral disturbances in Stigmata -- Beloved, a ghost story with an Ogbanje twist -- The child figure as a means to ancestral knowledge in Daughters of the dust and A Sunday in June. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The grasp that reaches beyond the grave |
| ISBN: | 1-4384-4738-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910787669203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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