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1 online resource (x, 267 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-258) and index. |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
This work offers an analysis of an emerging genre in African-American and Caribbean fiction: the novels of black women writers who have returned to their ancestral past. In novels like Toni Morrison's "Beloved", Jean Rhys' "Wide Sargasso Sea", and Maryse Conde's "I, Tituba", "magical" black daughters return to sites of trauma through visions, dreams, and memories. Rody reads these texts as allegorical expressions of the desire of writers newly emerging into cultural authority to reclaim their difficult inheritance, and finds a counter-plot of heroines' encounters with women of other racial and ethnic groups running through these works. |
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Contents; Introduction: The Daughter's Return; 1. Toni Morrison's Beloved: History, "Rememory", and a "Clamor for a Kiss"; 2. Adventures of the Magic Black Daughter: History and "Renaissance" in Contemporary African-American Women's Fictions; 3. Further Adventures of the Magic Black Daughter; 4. Caribbean Women's Literature and the Mother of History; 5. Burning Down the House: Daughterly Revision in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea; 6. Decolonizing Jamaica's Daughter: Learning History in the Novels of Michelle Cliff; 7. Crossing Water: Maryse Condé's I, Tituba and the Horizontal Plot; Notes. |
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Works CitedIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z. |
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American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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Caribbean fiction (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Literature and history -- English-speaking countries.
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Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.
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African American women -- Intellectual life.
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Women and literature -- Caribbean Area.
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Women and literature -- United States.
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African American women in literature.
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Mothers and daughters in literature.
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Daughters in literature.
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Return in literature.
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Women in literature.
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African American women.
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American fiction.
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Caribbean fiction (English)
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Literature and history.
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Women and literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rody, Caroline, 1960- Daughter's return. New York : Oxford University Press, 2001 0195138880 (DLC) 00024830 (OCoLC)43567370 |
| ISBN |
1429403977 (electronic bk.) |
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9780195350036 (electronic bk.) |
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0195350030 (electronic bk.) |
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