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Author:

Marouan, Maha, 1975-

Title:

Witches, goddesses, and angry spirits : the politics of spiritual liberation in African diaspora women's fiction / Maha Marouan.

Publisher:

Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

x, 180 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Danticat, Edwidge,--1969---Breath, eyes, memory.
Morrison, Toni.--Paradise.
Condé, Maryse.--Moi, Tituba, sorcière.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
African American women in literature.
African diaspora in literature.
African American women authors.
Danticat, Edwidge,--1969-
Morrison, Toni.
Condé, Maryse.
Frauenliteratur.
Afrikanerin.
USA.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-166) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : Breath, eyes, memory, Paradise and I, Tituba, Black witch of Salem : a theoretical and thematic framework -- In the spirit of Erzulie : Vodou and the re-imagining of Haitian womanhood in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory -- "Thunder, perfect mind" : gnosticism and the utopian impulse in Toni Morrison's Paradise -- Conjuring history : the meaning of witchcraft in Maryse Condé's I, Tituba, Black witch of Salem -- Conclusion : The return of witches, goddesses, and angry spirits.

ISBN:

0814293204 (cd)
9780814293201 (cd)
0814212190 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814212196 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)814301815

LCCN:

2012039927

Locations:

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

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)