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Author:

Young, Hershini Bhana. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005049751

Title:

Haunting capital : memory, text and the Black diasporic body / Hershini Bhana Young.

Publisher:

Published by University Press of New England,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

ix, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Southern African fiction (English)--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women and literature--Africa, Southern.
Women and literature--United States.
Wounds and injuries in literature.
Women, Black, in literature.
Human body in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Memory in literature.
Race in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Coda : the haunting distance between two places, South Africa and South Carolina. Opening heads and reaching shores : reading ghostly desire in Bessie Head's A question of power and Deborah Jack's Shore -- Between a push and a fall : the politics of re-memory in Gayl Jones's Corregidora -- Hungry women : economies of injury in Tsitsi Dangarembga' Nervous conditions -- The wounding of displacement : looking for home in Maryse Condé's Hérémakhonon -- Coda : the haunting distance between two places, South Africa and South Carolina.

Series:

Reencounters with colonialism--new perspectives on the Americas

ISBN:

9781584655190
1584655194
9781584655183
1584655186

OCLC:

(OCoLC)61027390

LCCN:

2005019249

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)