Introduction-Family matters -- A wide confraternity: diaspora and family in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the widow -- Sins of the mother?: ambivalence, agency, and the family romance in Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John -- Daughters of this land: genealogies of resistance in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory -- The language of family: talking back to narratives of Black pathology in Sapphire's Push -- Epilogue.
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