Moorings & metaphors : figures of culture and gender in Black women's literature /

Moorings & metaphors : figures of culture and gender in Black women's literature /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Holloway, Karla F. C., 1949-
Imprint:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1992.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 218 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism. West African literature (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Comparative literature -- American and West African (English) Comparative literature -- West African (English) and American. Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century. American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Women and literature -- Africa, West -- History -- 20th century. American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. African American women in literature. Women, Black, in literature. Sex role in literature. Myth in literature. Metaphor. African American women in literature. American literature. American literature -- African American authors. American literature -- Women authors. Metaphor. Myth in literature. Sex role in literature. West African literature (English) -- Women authors. Women and literature. Women, Black, in literature. West Africa. United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11099038

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Varying Form of Title:	Moorings and metaphors
ISBN:	0585002657 9780585002651 0813557585 9780813557588 0813517451 081351746X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-207) and index. English. Print version record.
Other form:	Print version: Holloway, Karla F.C., 1949- Moorings & metaphors. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1992 0813517451

Table of Contents:

A critical consideration of voice, gender, and culture
The novel politics of literary interpretation
Revision and (re)membrance : recursive structures in literature
Revision and (re)membrance : recursive structures in language
Mythologies
The idea of ancestry : African-American writers
Visions of the goddess : West African writers
Spirituals and praisesongs : telling testimonies.