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Author:

Morris, Susana M., 1980-

Title:

Close kin and distant relatives : the paradox of respectability in Black women's literature / Susana M. Morris.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

x, 178 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
Families in literature.
Politics and literature--United States--History--20th century.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

0813935504 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813935508 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813935490 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813935492 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)852488396

LCCN:

2013023501

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)