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Author Walters, Tracey Lorraine.

Title African American literature and the classicist tradition : Black women writers from Wheatley to Morrison / Tracey L. Walters.

Publication Info. New York : Palgrave MacMillan, 2007.
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  810.99287 W235A    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 197 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-194) and index.
Contents Introduction: writing the classical Black: the poetic and political function of African American women's classical revision -- Historical overview of ancient and contemporary representation of classical mythology -- Classical discourse as political agency: African American revisionist mythmaking by Phillis Wheatley, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, and Pauline Hopkins -- Gwendolyn Brooks' racialization of the Persephone and Demeter myth in "the Anniad" and "in The Mecca" -- The destruction and reconstruction of classical and cultural myth in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, Beloved and The Bluest Eye -- A universal approach to classical mythology: Rita Dove's The Darker Face of the Earth and Mother Love.
Subject American literature -- African American authors -- Classical influences.
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Mythology in literature.
ISBN 0230600220 hardback
9780230600225 hardback
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