Daughter's Return : African-American and Caribbean Women's Fictions of History.
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"", an...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press,
2001
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| 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 r. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (278 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780195350036 0195350030 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
