An invincible summer : female diasporean authors

An invincible summer : female diasporean authors / by Tommie Lee Jackson.

Author/creator	Jackson, Tommie Lee
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, ©2001.
Description	xix, 218 pages ; 21 cm
Subject(s)	American literature--African American authors --History and criticism. American literature--Women authors --History and criticism. Caribbean literature (English)--Black authors --History and criticism. Caribbean literature (English)--Women authors --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.

Contents	The origins 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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-214) and index.
LCCN	99059962
ISBN	0865438234
ISBN	0865438242 (pbk.)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PS153.B53 J39 2001	✔ Available	Place Hold