Title Africanism and authenticity in African-American women's novels / Amy K. Levin.

Publication Info.	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2003]
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Description	1 online resource (204 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-197) and index.
Contents	Otherness and the black mask -- Metaphor and maternity in Mama Day -- Clearing space : dramas of liminality and initiation in Morrison's novels -- Mother as colony, colony as mother : Jamaica Kincaid and cultural dislocation -- Alice Walker and the ethics of possession -- The violation of voice : revising the slave narrative -- Ghostwriting : authenticity and appropriation in Family and Beloved -- "We wasn't nothing" : leadership and vision in Dessa Rose -- African (re)sisters : rhetoric, representation, and liberation in Alice Walker's works -- A call finds its response : African women and African-American women writers.
Summary	''A groundbreaking work that links the lives and culture of African-American women to those of their African sisters. ... Levin completes the circle of these women's lives and histories by tracing their experiences from Africa to America and back.
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Subject	American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
	American fiction -- African American authors.
	Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Women and literature.
	United States.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
	American fiction -- Women authors.
	American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	American fiction.
	African American women -- Intellectual life.
	African American women -- Intellectual life.
	African American women.
	American fiction -- African influences.
	American fiction -- African influences.
	African American women in literature.
	African American women in literature.
	African Americans in literature.
	African Americans in literature.
	Africa -- In literature.
	Africa.
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Levin, Amy K., 1957- Africanism and authenticity in African-American women's novels. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2003 0813026318 9780813026312 (DLC) 2003040190 (OCoLC)51478065
ISBN	9780813031347 (electronic book)
	0813031346 (electronic book)
	0813026318 (acid-free paper)

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