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Author Rody, Caroline, 1960-

Title The daughter's return : African-American and Caribbean women's fictions of history / Caroline Rody.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
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 Moore Stacks  PS153.B53 R59 2001    Available  ---
Description x, 267 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-258) and index.
Contents Toni Morrison's Beloved: history, "Rememory" and a "Clamor for a kiss" -- Adventures of the Magic black daughter:history and "Renaissance" in contemporary African-American women's fictions -- Mothering the Renaissance -- Return of the Magic black daughter -- Further adventures of the Magic black daughter -- One dark body -- Variations on childbirth -- Coda -- Caribbean women's literature and the mother of history -- Recovering the mother-island -- The Caribbean daughter's return -- Jamaica Kincaid and the maternal void of history -- Burning down the house: daughterly revision in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea -- Decolonizing Jamaica's daughter: learning history in the novels of Michelle Cliff -- The novel as Abeng -- Becoming history: no telephone to heaven -- Crossing water: Maryse Conde's I, Tituba and the horizontal plot -- Epilogue: history, horizontality and the postcolonial Hester Prynne: On Conde, Mukherjee and Morrison
Subject American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- African American authors.
Caribbean fiction (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Caribbean fiction (English)
Women authors.
American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- Women authors.
Literature and history -- English-speaking countries.
Literature and history.
English-speaking countries.
Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.
Women and literature.
African American women -- Intellectual life.
African American women -- Intellectual life.
African American women.
Women and literature -- Caribbean Area.
Caribbean Area.
Women and literature -- United States.
United States.
African American women in literature.
African American women in literature.
Mothers and daughters in literature.
Mothers and daughters in literature.
Daughters in literature.
Daughters in literature.
Return in literature.
Return in literature.
Women in literature.
Women in literature.
ISBN 0195138880 acid-free paper
9780195138887 acid-free paper

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