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An invincible summer : female diasporean authors
- Title
- An invincible summer : female diasporean authors / by Tommie Lee Jackson.
- Author
- Jackson, Tommie Lee.
- Publication
- Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2001.
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Details
- Description
- xix, 218 p.; 21 cm.
- Subjects
- American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
- American literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- Women and literature > United States
- American literature > African influences
- Women and literature > English-speaking countries
- Betrayal in literature
- Caribbean literature (English) > Women authors > History and criticism
- Loss (Psychology) in literature
- Caribbean literature (English) > Black authors > History and criticism
- English literature > African influences
- Caribbean literature (English) > African influences
- Abandoned children in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-214) and index.
- Contents
- The orgins of the divestiture trope in selected literature of the African diaspora -- The diaspora as a trope for the existential condition -- Resonances of the African continent in selected fiction and non-fiction by Zora Neale Hurston -- Orphanage in Simone Schwarz-Bart's The bridge of beyond and Alice Walker's The third life of Grange Copeland -- The polyphonic texture of the trope "junkheaped" in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- The sociological implications of female abandonment in Buchi Emecheta's Second class citizen and The joys of motherhood -- The success phobia of Deighton Boyce in Paul Marshall's Brown girl, Brownstones -- Madness as a response to the female situation of disinheritance in Mariama Bâ's So long a letter and Scarlet song -- The exile of the elderly in Beryl Gilroy's Frangipani house and Boy-Sandwich -- Conclusion: abandonment as a trope for the human condition.
- Call Number
- Sc D 01-2161
- ISBN
- 0865438234
- 0865438242 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 99059962
- OCLC
- 43060451
- Author
- Jackson, Tommie Lee.
- Title
- An invincible summer : female diasporean authors / by Tommie Lee Jackson.
- Imprint
- Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2001.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-214) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 01-2161