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Inspiriting influences : tradition, revision, and Afro-American women's novels Cover Image Book Book

Inspiriting influences : tradition, revision, and Afro-American women's novels

Awkward, Michael (Author).

Summary: A critical look at works from this emerging body of literature. Examines Their eyes were watching God, The bluest eye, The women of Brewster Place, and The color purple. Provides insight to the aesthetically complex and ideologically challenging novels of Afro- American women.

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  • ISBN: 0231068069 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780231068062 (alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: print
    x, 178 p. ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, c1989.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-174) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Introduction : "mah tongue is in mah friend's mouf" : toward an intertextual reading of Afro-American women's novels -- "The inaudible voice of it all" : silence, voice, and action in Their eyes were watching God" -- "The evil of fulfillment" : scapegoating and narration in The bluest eye -- Authorial dreams of wholeness : (dis)unity, (literary) parentage, and The women of Brewster Place -- The color purple and the achievement of (comm)unity.

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