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Author Elia, Nada.

Title Trances, dances, and vociferations : agency and resistance in Africana women's narratives / Nada Elia.

Publication Info. New York : Garland Pub., 2001.

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 Moore Stacks  PS374.B635 E45 2001    Available  ---
Description xi, 169 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Pre-text: in the beginning all was sound -- "The fourth language": subaltern expression in Assia Djebar's Fantasia: an Algerian cavalcade and A sister to scheherazade -- "The memories of old women": alternative history in Michelle Cliff's No telephone to heaven and Free enterprise -- "I'm breaking my vow of silence": reclaiming speech in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the widow and daughters -- "Under the weight of memory and music": contact zones and healing in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Paradise -- Conclusion: "With nomad memory and intermittent voice": the Africana women's aesthetic tradition.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-164) and index.
Subject American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- African American authors.
American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- Women authors.
Djebar, Assia, 1936-2015 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Djebar, Assia, 1936-2015.
Criticism and interpretation.
Cliff, Michelle -- Criticism and interpretation.
Cliff, Michelle.
Women and literature -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 20th century.
Women and literature.
Caribbean Area.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States.
African American women in literature.
African American women in literature.
Caribbean Area -- In literature.
Algeria -- In literature.
Algeria.
Jamaica -- In literature.
Jamaica.
Feminism in literature.
Feminism in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Narration (Rhetoric)
Women in literature.
Women in literature.
ISBN 0815338430 paperback alkaline paper
0815338422 alkaline paper

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