| Description |
xii, 268 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Psychic rage and response: the enslaved and the enslaver in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose / Emma Waters-Dawson -- Voyages beyond lust and lactation: the climacteric as seen in novels by Sylvia Wynter, Beryl Gilroy, and Paule Marshall / Janice Lee Liddell -- A woman's art; a woman's craft: the self in Ntozake Shange's Sassafras, cypress, and indigo / Carol Marsh-Lockett -- Coming home to herself: autonomy and self-conversion in Flora Nwapa's One is enough / Australia Tarver -- When difference is not the dilemma: the black woman couple in African American women's fiction / Yakini B. Kemp --"Devouring gods" and "Sacrificial animals": The male-female relationship in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: a love story / Wei-hsiung (Kitty) Wu -- Snapshots of childhood life in Jamaica Kincaid's fiction / Brenda F. Berrian -- Fire and ice: the socioeconomics of romantic love in Elizabeth Nunez-Harrell's When rocks dance / Thelma B. Thompson-Deloatch -- Agents of pain and redemption in Sapphire's Push / Janice Lee Liddell -- Romantic love and the individual in novels by Mariama B,́ Buchi Emecheta, and Bessie Head / Yakini B. Kemp -- The politics of exile: Ama Ata Aidoo's Our sister Killjoy / Gay Wilentz -- "Sense make befoh book": Grenadian popular culture and the rhetoric of revolution in Merle Collins's Angel and the Colour of forgetting / Carolyn Cooper -- Meditations on her/story: Maryse Conde's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem and the slave narrative tradition / Paula C. Barnes -- Guyana's historical sociology and the novels of Beryl Gilroy and Grace Nichols / Erna Brodber -- Textual deviancy and cultural syncretism: romantic fiction as a subversive strain in Africana women's writing / Jane Bryse and Kari Dako -- "A girl marries a monkey": the folktale as an expression of value and change in society / N.J. Opoku-Agyemang -- Revolutionary brilliance: the Afrofemcentric aesthetic / Zain A. Muse (Omisola Alleyne) |
| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- African American authors. |
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Caribbean literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Caribbean literature -- Women authors. |
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Caribbean literature. |
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Women and literature -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 20th century.
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Women and literature. |
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Caribbean Area. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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United States. |
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American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Women authors. |
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African literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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African literature -- Women authors. |
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African literature. |
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Women and literature -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.
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Africa. |
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African American women in literature.
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African American women in literature. |
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Women, Black, in literature.
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Women, Black, in literature. |
| Added Author |
Liddell, Janice.
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Kemp, Yakini Belinda.
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| ISBN |
0813017289 acid-free paper |
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