Reclaiming home, remembering motherhood, rewriting history : African American and Afro-Caribbean women's literature in the twentieth century / edited by Verena Theile and Marie Drews.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Theile, Verena.

Drews, Marie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Caribbean literature (English)--Black authors--History and criticism.

Caribbean literature (English).

Caribbean literature (English)--Women authors--History and criticism.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Caribbean literature (English)--20th century--History and criticism.

Women in literature.

African Americans in literature.

Black people in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Reclaiming Home, Remembering Motherhood, Rewriting History: African American and Afro-Caribbean Women's Literature in the Twentieth Century offers a critical valuation of literature composed by black female writers and examines their projects of reclamation, rememory, and revision. As a collection, it engages black women writers' efforts to create more inclusive conceptualizations of community, gender, and history, conceptualizations that take into account alternate lived and written experien...

Contents:

pt. I. Reclaiming home

pt. II. Remembering motherhood

pt. III. Rewriting history.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-294) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-282-48113-4

9786612481130

1-4438-1047-9

OCLC:

827209464