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Author:

Elia, Nada.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Garland Pub.,

Copyright Date:

2001

Description:

xi, 169 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Djebar, Assia,--1936---Criticism and interpretation.
Cliff, Michelle--Criticism and interpretation.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women and literature--Caribbean Area--History--20th century.
Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
African American women in literature.
Feminism in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Women in literature.
Caribbean Area--In literature.
Algeria--In literature.
Jamaica--In literature.

Notes:

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

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:

9780815338437 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0815338430 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780815338420 (alk. paper)
0815338422 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)44727970

LCCN:

00061008

Locations:

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

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)