| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 146 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-142) and index. |
| Summary |
Examining works by Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Faith Ringgold, and Betye Saar, this innovative book frames black women's aesthetic sensibilities across art forms. Investigating the relationship between vernacular folk culture and formal expression, this study establishes how each of the four artists engaged the identity issues of the 1960s and used folklore as a strategy for crossing borders in the works they created during the following two decades. Because of its interdisciplinary approach, this study will appeal to students and scholars in many fields, including African American literature, art history, women's studies, diaspora studies, and cultural studies. |
| Contents |
Folklore and the borderland of the sixties -- Folk magic, women, and identity -- Reclaiming and re-creating Africa: folklore and the "return to the source" -- Folklore as performance and communion. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- African American authors. |
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American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- Women authors. |
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African American women -- Intellectual life.
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African American women -- Intellectual life. |
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African American women. |
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Literature and folklore -- United States.
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Literature and folklore. |
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United States. |
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Women and literature -- United States.
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Women and literature. |
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African American women in literature.
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African American women in literature. |
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans in literature. |
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African American women artists.
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African American women artists. |
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African Americans -- Folklore.
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African Americans -- Folklore. |
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African American art.
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African American art. |
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Folklore in art.
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Folklore in art. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Folklore.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Billingslea-Brown, Alma Jean, 1946- Crossing borders through folklore. Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, ©1999 0826211992 (DLC) 98031339 (OCoLC)39868091 |
| ISBN |
0826260098 (electronic book) |
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9780826260093 (electronic book) |
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0826211992 (alkaline paper) |
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9780826211996 (alkaline paper) |
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