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Author:

Gourdine, Angeletta K. M., 1968-

Title:

The difference place makes : gender, sexuality, and diaspora identity / Angeletta K.M. Gourdine.

Publisher:

Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2002?

Description:

xii, 135 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Cliff, Michelle--Criticism and interpretation.
Aidoo, Ama Ata,--1942---Criticism and interpretation.
Walker, Alice,--1944---Criticism and interpretation.
Caribbean fiction (English)--African influences.
American fiction--African influences.
Women and literature--Caribbean area.
Women and literature--United States.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Women and literature--Ghana.
Women, Black, in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Exiles in literature.
Race in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-131) and index.

Contents:

How it feels to read colored me, or "what is Africa to me?" -- "Com ya cyant 'no mo than been ya": Walker's Sankofa narrative(s) -- "Dis he is fe me territory": white sand, blue water, and Cliff's space for the Creole -- "Blackwomen always seem to be going through Changes": Ama Ata Aidoo voices a history muted -- "Write it in...put the sex right up on in there!": Walker, Cliff, and Aidoo sexualize and (re)map the diaspora.

ISBN:

9780814290026 (CD-ROM)
0814290027 (CD-ROM)
9780814251065 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0814251064 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814209264 (alk. paper)
0814209262 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)50496338

LCCN:

2002013506

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)