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The daughter's return : African-American and Caribbean women's fictions of history / / Caroline Rody



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Autore: Rody Caroline <1960-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The daughter's return : African-American and Caribbean women's fictions of history / / Caroline Rody Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001
Edizione: 1st ed.
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: Previously issued in print: 2001.
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  Visualizza cluster
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.: 9910827969003321
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Serie: Oxford scholarship online.