The great white way : African American women writers and American success mythologies /

The great white way : African American women writers and American success mythologies /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Kafka, Phillipa, 1943-
Imprint:	New York : Garland Pub., 1993.
Description:	vii, 223 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Garland reference library of the humanities vol. 1669 Critical studies in Black life and culture ; vol. 28 Critical studies on Black life and culture v. 28.
Subject:	Hurston, Zora Neale. Walker, Alice, -- 1944- Wheatley, Phillis, -- 1753-1784 American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Women and literature -- United States. African American women in literature African Americans in literature Success in literature Myth in literature African American women in literature. African American women -- Intellectual life. African Americans in literature. American literature -- African American authors. American literature -- Women authors. Myth in literature. Success in literature. Women and literature. United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1583221

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ISBN:	0815311605 (acid-free paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.

Table of Contents:

Phillis Wheatley, Benjamin Franklin, and European American Male Success Mythology
Wheatley and Her Literary Daughters: From Tragedies to Triumphs
Harriet Jacobs's Use of Self-Image to Represent Collective Self
"Dis ain't no business proposition. Dis is Uh Love Game": Zora Neale Hurston's Disjunctive Conjunctions and European American Success Myths in Their Eyes Were Watching God
Celie Is Short for Cinderella: Alice Walker and American Success Myths.