The daughter's return [[electronic resource] ] : African-American and Caribbean women's fictions of history / / Caroline Rody
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Rody Caroline <1960->
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| Titolo: |
The daughter's return [[electronic resource] ] : African-American and Caribbean women's fictions of history / / Caroline Rody
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813.009/9287/08996073 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| 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 Condé'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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The daughter's return |
| ISBN: | 0-19-772368-3 |
| 1-280-53104-5 | |
| 0-19-535003-0 | |
| 1-4294-0397-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910784816903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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