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Author Jackson, Tommie Lee.

Title An invincible summer : female diasporan authors / Tommie Lee Jackson.

Publication Info. Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, [2001]
©2001

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 Moore Stacks  PS153.B53 J39 2001    Available  ---
Description xix, 218 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-214) and index.
Contents Origins of the divestiture trope in selected literature of the African diaspora -- Diaspora as a trope for the existential condition -- Resonances of the African continent in selected fiction and non-fiction by Zora Neale Hurston -- Orphanage in Simone Schwarz-Bart's The bridge of beyond and Alice Walker's The third life of Grange Copeland -- Polyphonic texture of the trope "junkheaped" in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Sociological implications of female abandonment in Buchi Emecheta's Second class citizen and The joys of motherhood -- Success phobia of Deighton Boyce in Paul Marshall's Brown girl, Brownstones -- Madness as a response to the female situation of disinheritance in Mariama Bâ's So long a letter and Scarlet song -- Exile of the elderly in Beryl Gilroy's Frangipani house and Boy-Sandwich -- Conclusion: abandonment as a trope for the human condition.
Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- African American authors.
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- Women authors.
Caribbean literature (English) -- Black authors -- History and criticism.
Caribbean literature (English)
Authors, Black.
Caribbean literature (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Caribbean literature (English) -- Women authors.
Caribbean literature (English) -- African influences.
Caribbean literature (English) -- African influences.
Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.
Women and literature.
English-speaking countries.
African American women -- Intellectual life.
African American women -- Intellectual life.
African American women.
American literature -- African influences.
American literature -- African influences.
English literature -- African influences.
English literature -- African influences.
Women and literature -- United States.
United States.
African American women in literature.
African American women in literature.
Abandoned children in literature.
Abandoned children in literature.
Loss (Psychology) in literature.
Loss (Psychology) in literature.
Women, Black, in literature.
Women, Black, in literature.
Betrayal in literature.
Betrayal in literature.
ISBN 0865438242 paperback
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