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How Three Black Women Writers Combined Spiritual and Sensual Love : Rhetorically Transcending the Boundaries of Language (Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, and Dionne Brand)
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Turpin, Cherie Ann.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--History and criticism--Women authors.
- African diaspora in literature.
- Love in literature.
- Sex in literature.
- Eroticism in literature.
- Women, Black, in literature.
- Lorde, Audre--Criticism and interpretation.
- Lorde, Audre.
- Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019--Criticism and interpretation.
- Morrison, Toni.
- Brand, Dionne, 1953---Criticism and interpretation.
- Brand, Dionne.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (125 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- How Three Black Women Writers Combined Spiritual and Sensual Love
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is a study of women writers of the African Diaspora and their articulation of the erotic as an important aspect of human experience beyond the limits and expectations of society. Within the imaginary scope of the works of Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, and Dionne Brand, the erotic is made manifest through rewriting narrative and poetic form.
- Contents:
- HOW THREE BLACK WOMEN WRITERS COMBINED SPIRITUAL AND SENSUAL LOVE: Rhetorically Transcending the Boundaries of Language (Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, and Dionne Brand); Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chapter One - Africana Women Writers and the Erotic; Chapter Two - Lesbian Eros and Narrative in Audre Lorde's Zami; Chapter Three - Sensual Narrative in Toni Morrison's Jazz; Chapter Four - Framing History in Dionne Brand's At the Full and Change of the Moon; Chapter Five - Erotic Subjectivity and Africana Women Writers; Works Cited; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780773429994
- 0773429999
- OCLC:
- 818851274
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