Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History : Migration and Identity in Black Women's Literature / / edited by Elizabeth Brown-Guillory

• Pubblicazione: Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2006; ©2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 201 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9/9287/09171241
• Soggetto topico: Women in literature; Emigration and immigration in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Women and literature - English-speaking countries - History - 20th century; Commonwealth literature (English) - Black authors - History and criticism; Commonwealth literature (English) - Women authors - History and criticism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: Brown-GuilloryElizabeth
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-197) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Conflicting identities in the women of Ama Ata Aidoo's drama and fiction / Violet Harrington Bryan -- Coming to voice: navigating the interstices in plays by Winsome Pinnock / DeLinda Marzette -- Migration, transformation, and identity formation in Buchi Emecheta's In the ditch and Kehinde / Romanus Muoneke -- Gloria Naylor's north/south dichotomy and the reversal of the middle passage : juxtaposed migrations within Mama Day / Kathryn M. Paterson -- Reconfiguring self: a matter of place in selected novels by Paule Marshall / Marie Foster Gnage -- "What a history you have": ancestral memory, cultural history, migration patterns, and the quest for autonomy in the fiction of Jamaica Kincaid / Julia De Foor Jay -- "Tee,", "Cyn-Cyn," "Cynthia," "Dou-dou": remembering and forgetting the "true-true name" in Merle Hodge's Crick crack, monkey / Joyce Zonana -- Place and displacement in Djanet Sears's Harlem duet and The adventures of a black girl in search of god / Elizabeth Brown-Guillory -- Recovering the past: transatlantic migration, hybrid identities, and healing in Tess Onwueme's The missing face / Juluette Bartlett-Pack.
• Titolo autorizzato: Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History
• ISBN: 0-8142-7234-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910524660603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II