Research Catalog

Title

Trances, dances, and vociferations : agency and resistance in Africana women's narratives / Nada Elia.

Author

Elia, Nada

Publication

New York : Garland Pub., 2001.

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Details

Description

xi, 169 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• African American women > Intellectual life
• African American women in literature
• Algeria > In literature
• Algeria > In literature
• American fiction > History and criticism
• Caribbean Area > In literature
• Caribbean Area > In literature
• Cliff, Michelle > Criticism and interpretation
• Djebar, Assia, 1936-2015 > Criticism and interpretation
• Feminism in literature
• Feminist fiction > History and criticism
• Jamaica > In literature
• Marshall, Paule, 1929-2019 > Criticism and interpretation
• Morrison, Toni > Criticism and interpretation
• Narration (Rhetoric)
• Women and literature > Caribbean Area > History > 20th century
• Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century
• Women in literature

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-164) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pre-text: in the beginning all was sound -- "The fourth language": subaltern expression in Assia Djebar's Fantasia: an Algerian cavalcade and A sister to scheherazade -- "The memories of old women": alternative history in Michelle Cliff's No telephone to heaven and Free enterprise -- "I'm breaking my vow of silence": reclaiming speech in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the widow and daughters -- "Under the weight of memory and music": contact zones and healing in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Paradise -- Conclusion: "With nomad memory and intermittent voice": the Africana women's aesthetic tradition.

ISBN

• 0815338422 (alk. paper)
• 0815338430 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00061008^

OCLC

44727970

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library