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Author:

Drake, Simone C., 1975- author.

Title:

Critical appropriations : African American women and the construction of transnational identity / Simone C. Drake.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xi, 186 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women, Black--Race identity.
Women, Black, in literature.
African diaspora in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

When home is paradise : appropriating acts in Toni Morrison's Paradise -- Romanticizing diaspora and remembering Zora in Erna Brodber's Louisiana -- Transnational sisterhood : Beyonce and Shakira sexing the difference -- He said nothing: Brasilidade and Aphasia in Danzy Senna's Caucasia and Gayl Jones's Corregiadora -- The sight/site of transgression in Eve's Bayou -- Epilogue : Loose your mother : a different route home.

Series:

Southern literary studies

ISBN:

0807153877 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807153871 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)853113573

LCCN:

2013024531

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)