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Maternal metaphors of power in African American women's llterature : from Phillis Wheatley to Toni Morrison / Geneva Cobb Moore ; foreword by Andrew Billingsley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moore, Geneva Cobb, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women in literature.
- American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature--African American authors.
- American literature--Women authors.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 361 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- An in-depth examination of the female black experience portrayed in literature throughout American history.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Slavery and Abolitionism, Freedom and Jim Crow America 7
- Chapter 1 Phillis Wheatley's Seminaked Body as Symbol and Metaphor 9
- Chapter 2 Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: A Freudian Reading of Neurotic and Sexed Bodies 34
- Chapter 3 The Maternal Ideal: The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimké 58
- Chapter 4 Antiblack Aesthetics: Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurslon, and Jim Crow America 88
- Part 2 A Conflation of History, Past and Present 159
- Chapter 5 Maternal Imprinting: Paule Marshall and the Mother-Daughter Dyad 161
- Chapter 6 The Phallic Maternal: Alice Walker's Novels of Archetypal Symbolism 194
- Chapter 7 Bodily Evidence: Toni Morrison's Demonic Parody of Racism and Slavery 228.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1611177480
- 9781611177480
- OCLC:
- 960835307
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