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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, [2001], ©2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS153.N5 J39 2001 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xix, 218 pages; 21 cm
- Subjects
- Loss (Psychology) in literature
- Caribbean literature (English) > Black authors > History and criticism
- Women and literature > United States
- Caribbean literature (English) > Women authors > History and criticism
- American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
- Abandoned children in literature
- Women and literature > English-speaking countries
- Betrayal in literature
- American literature > African influences
- English literature > African influences
- American literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- Caribbean literature (English) > African influences
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-214) and index.
- Contents
- 1. The Origins of the Divestiture Trope in Selected Literature of the African Diaspora -- 2. The Diaspora as a Trope for the Existential Condition -- 3. Resonances of the African Continent in Selected Fiction and Non-Fiction by Zora Neale Hurston -- 4. Orphanage in Simone Schwarz-Bart's The Bridge of Beyond and Alice Walker's The Third Life of Grange Copeland -- 5. The Polyphonic Texture of the Trope 'Junkheaped' in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- 6. The Sociological Implications of Female Abandonment in Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen and The Joys of Motherhood -- 7. The Success Phobia of Deighton Boyce in Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones -- 8. Madness as a Response to the Female Situation of Disinheritance in Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter and Scarlet Song -- 9. The Exile of the Elderly in Beryl Gilroy's Frangipani House and Boy-Sandwich -- 10. Conclusion: Abandonment as a Trope for the Human Condition.
- ISBN
- 0865438234
- 0865438242 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 99059962
- OCLC
- ocm43060451
- SCSB-4194774
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries