Africanism and authenticity in African-American women's novels by Levin, Amy K., 1957- instant download

Africanism and authenticity in African-American women's novels by Levin, Amy K., 1957- instant download

1 online resource (204 pages), ''A groundbreaking work that links the lives and culture of African-American women to those of their African sisters. ... Levin completes the circle of these women's lives and histories by tracing their experiences from Africa to America and back, Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-197) and index, Otherness and the black mask -- Metaphor and maternity in Mama Day -- Clearing space : dramas of liminality and initiation in Morrison's novels -- Mother as colony, colony as mother : Jamaica Kincaid and cultural dislocation -- Alice Walker and the ethics of possession -- The violation of voice : revising the slave narrative -- Ghostwriting : authenticity and appropriation in Family and Beloved -- \"We wasn't nothing\" : leadership and vision in Dessa Rose -- African (re)sisters : rhetoric, representation, and liberation in Alice Walker's works -- A call finds its response : African women and African-American women writers, Print version record