Maternal metaphors of power in African American women's literature : from Phillis Wheatley to Toni Morrison / / Geneva Cobb Moore ; foreword by Andrew Billingsley
| Maternal metaphors of power in African American women's literature : from Phillis Wheatley to Toni Morrison / / Geneva Cobb Moore ; foreword by Andrew Billingsley |
| Autore | Moore Geneva Cobb |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Columbia, South Carolina : , : The University of South Carolina Press, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (376 pages) |
| Disciplina | 811.1 |
| ISBN | 1-61117-749-9 |
| Classificazione | LIT004040SOC031000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Foreword / Andrew Billingsley -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction : signs of regeneration in African American women's literature -- part one. Slavery and abolitionism, freedom and Jim Crow America -- 1. Phillis Wheatley's seminaked body as symbol and metaphor -- 2. Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl : a Freudian reading of neurotic and sexed bodies -- 3. The maternal ideal : the journals of Charlotte Forten Grimk{acute}e -- 4. Antiblack aesthetics : Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jim Crow America -- part two. A conflation of history, past and present -- 5. Maternal imprinting : Paule Marshall and the mother-daughter dyad -- 6. The phallic maternal : Alice Walker's novels of archetypal symbolism -- 7. Bodily evidence : Toni Morrison's demonic parody of racism and slavery -- Afterword. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792737803321 |
Moore Geneva Cobb
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| Columbia, South Carolina : , : The University of South Carolina Press, , 2017 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Maternal metaphors of power in African American women's literature : from Phillis Wheatley to Toni Morrison / / Geneva Cobb Moore ; foreword by Andrew Billingsley
| Maternal metaphors of power in African American women's literature : from Phillis Wheatley to Toni Morrison / / Geneva Cobb Moore ; foreword by Andrew Billingsley |
| Autore | Moore Geneva Cobb |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Columbia, South Carolina : , : The University of South Carolina Press, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (376 pages) |
| Disciplina | 811.1 |
| ISBN | 1-61117-749-9 |
| Classificazione | LIT004040SOC031000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Foreword / Andrew Billingsley -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction : signs of regeneration in African American women's literature -- part one. Slavery and abolitionism, freedom and Jim Crow America -- 1. Phillis Wheatley's seminaked body as symbol and metaphor -- 2. Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl : a Freudian reading of neurotic and sexed bodies -- 3. The maternal ideal : the journals of Charlotte Forten Grimk{acute}e -- 4. Antiblack aesthetics : Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jim Crow America -- part two. A conflation of history, past and present -- 5. Maternal imprinting : Paule Marshall and the mother-daughter dyad -- 6. The phallic maternal : Alice Walker's novels of archetypal symbolism -- 7. Bodily evidence : Toni Morrison's demonic parody of racism and slavery -- Afterword. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817623303321 |
Moore Geneva Cobb
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| Columbia, South Carolina : , : The University of South Carolina Press, , 2017 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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