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• catalog abstract "Moorings and Metaphors is one of the first studies to examine the ways that cultural tradition is reflected in the language and figures of black women's writing. In a discussion that includes the works of Gloria Naylor, Alice Walker, Ama Ata Aidoo, Ntozake Shange, Buchi Emecheta, Octavia Butler, Efua Sutherland, and Gayl Jones, and with a particular focus on Toni Morrison's Beloved and Flora Nwapa's Efuru, Holloway follows the narrative structures, language, and figurative metaphors of West African goddesses and African-American ancestors as they weave through the pages of these writers' fiction. She explores what she would call the cultural and gendered essence of contemporary literature that has grown out of the African diaspora. Proceeding from a consideration of the imaginative textual languages of contemporary African-American and West African writers, Holloway asserts the intertextuality of black women's literature across two continents. She argues the subtext of culture as the source of metaphor and language, analyzes narrative structures and linguistic processes, and develops a combined theoretical/critical apparatus and vocabulary for interpreting these writers' works. The cultural sources and spiritual considerations that inhere in these textual languages are discussed within the framework Holloway employs of patterns of revision, (re)membrance, and recursion--all of which are vehicles for expressive modes inscribed at the narrative level. Her critical reading of contemporary black women's writing in the United States and West Africa is unique, radical, and sure to be controversial.".
• catalog alternative "Moorings and metaphors.".
• catalog contributor b3610822.
• catalog coverage "Africa, West In literature.".
• catalog coverage "Africa, West Intellectual life.".
• catalog created "c1992.".
• catalog date "1992".
• catalog date "c1992.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
• catalog description "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.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-207) and index.".
• catalog description "Moorings and Metaphors is one of the first studies to examine the ways that cultural tradition is reflected in the language and figures of black women's writing. In a discussion that includes the works of Gloria Naylor, Alice Walker, Ama Ata Aidoo, Ntozake Shange, Buchi Emecheta, Octavia Butler, Efua Sutherland, and Gayl Jones, and with a particular focus on Toni Morrison's Beloved and Flora Nwapa's Efuru, Holloway follows the narrative structures, language, and figurative metaphors of West African goddesses and African-American ancestors as they weave through the pages of these writers' fiction. She explores what she would call the cultural and gendered essence of contemporary literature that has grown out of the African diaspora. Proceeding from a consideration of the imaginative textual languages of contemporary African-American and West African writers, Holloway asserts the intertextuality of black women's literature across two continents. She argues the subtext of culture as the source of metaphor and language, analyzes narrative structures and linguistic processes, and develops a combined theoretical/critical apparatus and vocabulary for interpreting these writers' works. The cultural sources and spiritual considerations that inhere in these textual languages are discussed within the framework Holloway employs of patterns of revision, (re)membrance, and recursion--all of which are vehicles for expressive modes inscribed at the narrative level. Her critical reading of contemporary black women's writing in the United States and West Africa is unique, radical, and sure to be controversial.".
• catalog extent "x, 218 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0813517451".
• catalog identifier "081351746X (pbk.)".
• catalog issued "1992".
• catalog issued "c1992.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press,".
• catalog spatial "Africa, West In literature.".
• catalog spatial "Africa, West Intellectual life.".
• catalog spatial "Africa, West".
• catalog spatial "Africa, West.".
• catalog spatial "English-speaking countries.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "810.9/9287 20".
• catalog subject "African American women in literature.".
• catalog subject "American literature 20th century History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "American literature African American authors History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "American literature Afro-American authors History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "American literature Women authors History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Comparative literature American and West African (English)".
• catalog subject "Comparative literature West African (English) and American.".
• catalog subject "Literature, Comparative American and West African (English)".
• catalog subject "Literature, Comparative West African (English) and American.".
• catalog subject "Metaphor.".
• catalog subject "Myth in literature.".
• catalog subject "PS153.N5 H65 1992".
• catalog subject "Sex role in literature.".
• catalog subject "West African literature (English) Women authors History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Women Africa, West Intellectual life.".
• catalog subject "Women and literature Africa, West History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Women and literature Africa, West.".
• catalog subject "Women and literature English-speaking countries.".
• catalog subject "Women and literature United States History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Women, Black, in literature.".
• catalog tableOfContents "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.".
• catalog title "Moorings & metaphors : figures of culture and gender in Black women's literature / Karla F.C. Holloway.".
• catalog title "Moorings and metaphors.".
• catalog type "text".