Black women novelists and the nationalist aesthetic / Madhu Dubey.

Contents Introduction : Black feminist criticism -- "I am new man" : black nationalism and the black aesthetic -- "What did we lack?" : uses of the grotesque mode the The bluest eye -- "No bottom and no top" : oppositions in Sula -- "A new world song" : the blues form of Corregidora -- "Don't you explain me" : the unreadability of Eva's man -- "To survive whole" : the integrative aims of womanism in The third life of Grange Copeland -- "A crazy quilt" : the multivalent pattern of Meridian -- Conclusion : Black women's fiction in the 1970s.
Local noteLittle-300876--305131006539-
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 163-190) and index.
LCCN 93014343
ISBN0253318416 (alk. paper)
ISBN0253208556 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS374.B635 D78 1994 ✔ Available Place Hold