Research Catalog

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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Description

xix, 218 pages; 21 cm

Subject

• American literature > History and criticism
• Caribbean literature (English) > History and criticism
• Caribbean literature (English) > African influences
• Women and literature > English-speaking countries
• American literature > African influences
• English literature > African influences
• Women and literature > United States
• Abandoned children in literature
• Loss (Psychology) in literature
• Betrayal in literature

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