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- catalog abstract ""In an examination of the fiction of contemporary women writers of the African Diaspora, these writers engage important texts from writers in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States, largely ignored by mainstream literary scholars. They employ fresh and poignant critical perspectives accessible to both scholars and students. The editors provide a comprehensive historical and critical overview of black women's studies as it has developed transnationally and they cogently situate these essays within this rapidly developing field."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11367543.
- catalog contributor b11367544.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""In an examination of the fiction of contemporary women writers of the African Diaspora, these writers engage important texts from writers in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States, largely ignored by mainstream literary scholars. They employ fresh and poignant critical perspectives accessible to both scholars and students. The editors provide a comprehensive historical and critical overview of black women's studies as it has developed transnationally and they cogently situate these essays within this rapidly developing field."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Psychic rage and response: the enslaved and the enslaver in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose / Emma Waters-Dawson -- Voyages beyond lust and lactation: the climacteric as seen in novels by Sylvia Wynter, Beryl Gilroy, and Paule Marshall / Janice Lee Liddell -- A woman's art; a woman's craft: the self in Ntozake Shange's Sassafras, cypress, and indigo / Carol Marsh-Lockett -- Coming home to herself: autonomy and self-conversion in Flora Nwapa's One is enough / Australia Tarver -- When difference is not the dilemma: the black woman couple in African American women's fiction / Yakini B. Kemp --"Devouring gods" and "Sacrificial animals": The male-female relationship in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: a love story / Wei-hsiung (Kitty) Wu -- Snapshots of childhood life in Jamaica Kincaid's fiction / Brenda F. Berrian -- Fire and ice: the socioeconomics of romantic love in Elizabeth Nunez-Harrell's When rocks dance / Thelma B. Thompson-Deloatch -- Agents of pain and redemption in Sapphire's Push / Janice Lee Liddell -- Romantic love and the individual in novels by Mariama B,́ Buchi Emecheta, and Bessie Head / Yakini B. Kemp -- The politics of exile: Ama Ata Aidoo's Our sister Killjoy / Gay Wilentz -- "Sense make befoh book": Grenadian popular culture and the rhetoric of revolution in Merle Collins's Angel and the Colour of forgetting / Carolyn Cooper -- Meditations on her/story: Maryse Conde's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem and the slave narrative tradition / Paula C. Barnes -- Guyana's historical sociology and the novels of Beryl Gilroy and Grace Nichols / Erna Brodber -- Textua".
- catalog extent "xii, 268 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0813017289 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Gainesville : University Press of Florida,".
- catalog spatial "Africa".
- catalog spatial "Caribbean Area".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "810.9/352042/08996073 21".
- catalog subject "African American women Intellectual life.".
- catalog subject "African American women in literature.".
- catalog subject "African literature Women authors 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 "Caribbean literature Women authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PS153.N5 A87 1999".
- catalog subject "Women and literature Africa History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature Caribbean Area History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Women, Black, in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Psychic rage and response: the enslaved and the enslaver in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose / Emma Waters-Dawson -- Voyages beyond lust and lactation: the climacteric as seen in novels by Sylvia Wynter, Beryl Gilroy, and Paule Marshall / Janice Lee Liddell -- A woman's art; a woman's craft: the self in Ntozake Shange's Sassafras, cypress, and indigo / Carol Marsh-Lockett -- Coming home to herself: autonomy and self-conversion in Flora Nwapa's One is enough / Australia Tarver -- When difference is not the dilemma: the black woman couple in African American women's fiction / Yakini B. Kemp --"Devouring gods" and "Sacrificial animals": The male-female relationship in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: a love story / Wei-hsiung (Kitty) Wu -- Snapshots of childhood life in Jamaica Kincaid's fiction / Brenda F. Berrian -- Fire and ice: the socioeconomics of romantic love in Elizabeth Nunez-Harrell's When rocks dance / Thelma B. Thompson-Deloatch -- Agents of pain and redemption in Sapphire's Push / Janice Lee Liddell -- Romantic love and the individual in novels by Mariama B,́ Buchi Emecheta, and Bessie Head / Yakini B. Kemp -- The politics of exile: Ama Ata Aidoo's Our sister Killjoy / Gay Wilentz -- "Sense make befoh book": Grenadian popular culture and the rhetoric of revolution in Merle Collins's Angel and the Colour of forgetting / Carolyn Cooper -- Meditations on her/story: Maryse Conde's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem and the slave narrative tradition / Paula C. Barnes -- Guyana's historical sociology and the novels of Beryl Gilroy and Grace Nichols / Erna Brodber -- Textua".
- catalog title "Arms akimbo : Africana women in contemporary literature / edited by Janice Lee Liddell and Yakini Belinda Kemp.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".