The African Continuum and Contemporary African American Women Writers : Their Literary Presence and Ancestral Past
by
Marion Kraft
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
European University Studies
ISBN-10
3631490828
ISBN-13
9783631490822
Publisher
Peter Lang GmbH
Imprint
Peter Lang GmbH
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 1st, 1995
Print length
292 Pages
Weight
382 grams
Dimensions
15.00 x 20.90 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
United Kingdom, Great BritainCanadaAmerican EnglishLiterary studies: general
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Starting from the principle of the African continuum and based on concepts of an afrocentric feminist epistemology, this study traces back African cultural traditions and narrative strategies in works by African American women writers. It examines the inscription of the Black woman''s voice into the Western text and analyses conceptions of female bonding, flexible gender roles, matrilineal myths and legends, trickster figures, folktales, tonal language and double-voiced structures of address as constituting elements in the development of a specific literary canon of women writers of the African diaspora in the USA. Focusing on these textual politics, the study aims at contributing to the ongoing discourse on Black feminist aesthetics.
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