Women's work : nationalism and contemporary African American women's novels /
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| Author / Creator: | Thorsson, Courtney, 1978- |
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| Imprint: | Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013. |
| Description: | ix, 227 pages ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9136298 |
| Summary: | In Women's Work, Courtney Thorsson reconsiders the gender, genre and geography of African American nationalism as she explores the aesthetic history of African American writing by women. Building on and departing from the Black Arts Movement, the literary fiction of such writers as Toni Cade Bambara, Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor, Ntozake Shange and Toni Morrison employs a cultural nationalism-practiced by their characters as ""women's work""-that defines a distinct contemporary literary movement, demanding attention to the continued relevance of nation in post-Black Arts writing. Identifying five forms of women's work as organising, dancing, mapping, cooking, and inscribing, Thorsson shows how these writers reclaimed and revised cultural nationalism to hail African America. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 227 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813934471 0813934478 9780813934488 0813934486 9780813934495 |
