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The daughter's return : African-American and Caribbean women's fictions of history / Caroline Rody.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rody, Caroline, 1960- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Caribbean fiction (English)--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Caribbean fiction (English).
- American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Literature and history--English-speaking countries.
- Literature and history.
- Women and literature--English-speaking countries.
- Women and literature.
- African American women--Intellectual life.
- African American women.
- Women and literature--Caribbean Area.
- Women and literature--United States.
- African American women in literature.
- Mothers and daughters in literature.
- Daughters in literature.
- Return in literature.
- Women in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (278 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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. Novels such as Toni Morrison's ""Beloved"" and Jean Rhys' ""Wide Sargasso Sea"" are assessed.
- Contents:
- 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
- NotesWorks Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-258) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772368-3
- 1-280-53104-5
- 0-19-535003-0
- 1-4294-0397-7
- OCLC:
- 476026263
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