Arms akimbo : Africana women in contemporary literature /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c1999.
Description:	xii, 268 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism. Caribbean literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Women and literature -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 20th century. Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century. American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. African literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Women and literature -- Africa -- History -- 20th century. African American women in literature. Women, Black, in literature. African American women in literature. African American women -- Intellectual life. African literature -- Women authors. American literature -- African American authors. American literature -- Women authors. Caribbean literature -- Women authors. Women and literature. Women, Black, in literature. Africa. Caribbean Area. United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4131729

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:	Liddell, Janice. Kemp, Yakini Belinda.
ISBN:	0813017289 (acid-free paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Foreword / Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Introduction: Black Women's Studies and the Intellectual Legacy - A Praise Song
Pt. 1. A Birthing of Self. 1. Psychic Rage and Response: The Enslaved and the Enslaver in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose / Emma Waters-Dawson. 2. Voyages Beyond Lust and Lactation: The Climacteric as Seen in Novels by Sylvia Wynter, Beryl Gilroy, and Paule Marshall / Janice Lee Liddell. 3. A Woman's Art; A Woman's Craft: The Self in Ntozake Shange's Sassafras, Cypress, and Indigo / Carol Marsh-Lockett. 4. Coming Home to Herself: Autonomy and Self-Conversion in Flora Nwapa's One Is Enough / Australia Tarver
Pt. 2. Relationships: Mothering, Mistressing, Marrying, and Woman-to-Woman - Disengaging the Family Romance. 5. When Difference Is Not the Dilemma: The Black Woman Couple in African American Women's Fiction / Yakini B. Kemp. 6. "Devouring Gods" and "Sacrificial Animals": The Male-Female Relationship in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: A Love Story / Wei-hsiung (Kitty) Wu. 7. Snapshots of Childhood Life in Jamaica Kincaid's Fiction / Brenda F. Berrian. 8. Fire and Ice: The Socioeconomics of Romantic Love in Elizabeth Nunez-Harrell's When Rocks Dance / Thelma B. Thompson-Deloatch
Pt. 3. War on All Fronts: Race, Class, Sex, Age, and Nationality. 9. Agents of Pain and Redemption in Sapphire's Push / Janice Lee Liddell. 10. Romantic Love and the Individual in Novels by Mariama Ba, Buchi Emecheta, and Bessie Head / Yakini B. Kemp. 11. The Politics of Exile: Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy / Gay Wilentz. 12. "Sense Make Befoh Book": Grenadian Popular Culture and the Rhetoric of Revolution in Merle Collins's Angel and The Colour of Forgetting / Carolyn Cooper
Pt. 4. Invention and Convention: Womanist Gazes on Literary and Critical Traditions. 13. Meditations on Her/Story: Maryse Conde's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem and the Slave Narrative Tradition / Paula C. Barnes. 14. Guyana's Historical Sociology and the Novels of Beryl Gilroy and Grace Nichols / Erna Brodber. 15. Textual Deviancy and Cultural Syncretism: Romantic Fiction as a Subversive Strain in Africana Women's Writing / Jane Bryse and Kari Dako. 16. "A Girl Marries A Monkey": The Folktale as an Expression of Value and Change in Society / N. J. Opoku-Agyemang. 17. Revolutionary Brilliance: The Afrofemcentric Aesthetic / Zain A. Muse (Omisola Alleyne).

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