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Author Wall, Cheryl A.

Title Worrying the line : black women writers, lineage, and literary tradition / Cheryl A. Wall.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2005]
©2005

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 Moore Stacks  PS374.B635 W354 2005    Available  ---
Description xii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series Gender and American culture
Gender & American culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-294) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Reconstructing lineage, revising tradition in Song of Solomon and Zami -- On the line to Dahomey : charting Generations -- Recollections of kin : Beloved and The black book -- Trouble in mind : blues and history in Corregidora -- Writing beyond the blues : The color purple -- Extending the line : from Sula to Mama day -- Bare bones and silken threads : lineage and literary tradition in Praisesong for the widow -- In search of our mothers' gardens and our fathers' (real) estate : Alice Walker, essayist -- Epilogue : moving on down the line ...
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.
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Domestic fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Domestic fiction, American.
American prose literature -- History and criticism.
American prose literature.
African American women -- Intellectual life.
African American women -- Intellectual life.
African American women.
African American families in literature.
African American families in literature.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Genealogy in literature.
Genealogy in literature.
Kinship in literature.
Kinship in literature.
Families in literature.
Families in literature.
ISBN 0807855863 paperback alkaline paper
0807829277 cloth alkaline paper