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Title:
Postcolonial perspectives on women writers from Africa, the Caribbean, and the US / edited by Martin Japtok.
Publisher:
Africa World Press,
Copyright Date:
c2003
Description:
xxix, 348 p. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.
African literature--History and criticism.
African literature (English)--History and criticism.
Caribbean literature--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism--History and criticism
Other Authors:
Japtok, Martin.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Location and separateness in African and African-American drama : a study of Hilda Kuper's A witch in my heart and Lorraine Hansberry's A raisin in the sun / Chinyere G. Okafor. From 'spy-glass' to 'horizon' : tracking the anthropological gaze in Zora Neale Hurston / Karen Jacobs -- "Yes, anyone with half an eye could see that it wasn't she" : Helga Crane's artistic decolonization / Venetria Patton -- Recontextualizing women's history : Ursa Corregidora as a "blues arachne" / Tanya Monier -- Breaking canonical chains : Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills / Tracey Thornton -- "Can't leave home without it" : the paradox of memory in Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy / Paulette Brown-Hinds -- Remaking the wor(l)d : a poetics of resistance and transformation in Marlene Nourbese Philip's She tries her tongue : her silence softly breaks / Shara McCallum -- "Beyond recognition" : heritage and identity in Paule Marshall's The chosen place, the timeless people / Joy M. Lynch -- Rising in the ashes : reading Krik? Krak! as a response to Can the subaltern speak? / Carmen Nge -- (Re- )writing the marginalized body : Grace Nichols's The fat black woman's poems / Melissa Johnson -- Ramatoulaye's letter : cross-cultural reading strategies & the criticism of Mariama Ba's so long a letter / Merri Lisa Johnson -- Self-colonization and racial identity in Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy or reflections from a black-eyed squint / James M. Ivory -- Women's utopic impulses in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra / Su Fang ng -- "Loose or decent, I don't know" : space, self, and nation in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions / Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt -- Location and separateness in African and African-American drama : a study of Hilda Kuper's A witch in my heart and Lorraine Hansberry's A raisin in the sun / Chinyere G. Okafor.
ISBN:
9781592210688 (pbk.)
1592210686 (pbk.)
9781592210671 (hardcover)
1592210678 (hardcover)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)51003896
LCCN:
2002152573
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

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