An invincible summer : female diasporean authors / by Tommie Lee Jackson.

Author/creator Jackson, Tommie Lee
Format Book
Publication InfoTrenton, NJ : Africa World Press, ©2001.
Descriptionxix, 218 pages ; 21 cm
Subjects
American literature--African American authors. --History and criticism.
American literature--Women authors. --History and criticism.
Caribbean literature (English)--Black authors. --History and criticism.
Caribbean literature (English)--Women authors. --History and criticism.
Caribbean literature (English)--African influences.
Women and literature--English-speaking countries.
American literature--African influences.
English literature--African influences.
Women and literature--United States.
Abandoned children in literature.
Loss (Psychology) in literature.
Betrayal in literature.

Contents The origins of the divestiture trope in selected literature of the African diaspora -- The diaspora as a trope for the existential condition -- Resonances of the African continent in selected fiction and non-fiction by Zora Neale Hurston -- Orphanage in Simone Schwarz-Bart's The bridge of beyond and Alice Walker's The third life of Grange Copeland -- The polyphonic texture of the trope "junkheaped" in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- The sociological implications of female abandonment in Buchi Emecheta's Second class citizen and The joys of motherhood -- The success phobia of Deighton Boyce in Paul Marshall's Brown girl, Brownstones -- Madness as a response to the female situation of disinheritance in Mariama Bâ's So long a letter and Scarlet song -- The exile of the elderly in Beryl Gilroy's Frangipani house and Boy-Sandwich -- Conclusion: abandonment as a trope for the human condition.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [197]-214) and index.
LCCN 99059962
ISBN0865438234
ISBN0865438242 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks PS153.B53 J39 2001 ✔ Available Place Hold