Trances, dances, and vociferations [electronic resource] : agency and resistance in Africana women's narratives / Nada Elia.
Publication details: New York : Garland Pub., 2001.Description: xi, 169 pISBN:- 9780203906842
- American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism
- American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- Djebar, Assia, 1936- -- Criticism and interpretation
- Cliff, Michelle -- Criticism and interpretation
- Women and literature -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 20th century
- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- African American women -- Intellectual life
- Feminist fiction -- History and criticism
- African American women in literature
- Caribbean Area -- In literature
- Algeria -- In literature
- Jamaica -- In literature
- Feminism in literature
- Narration (Rhetoric)
- Women in literature
- Also available in print edition.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-164) and index.
ch. 1. Pre-text : in the beginning all was sound -- ch. 2. "The fourth language" : subaltern expression in Assia Djebar Fantasia : an Algerian cavalcade and A sister to Scheherazade -- ch. 3. "The memories of old women" : alternative history in Michelle Cliff's No telephone to heaven and Free enterprise -- ch. 4. "I'm breaking my vow of silence" : reclaiming speech in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the widow and Daughters -- ch. 5. "Under the weight of memory and music" : contact zones and healing in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Paradise -- ch. 6. Conclusion : "With nomad memory and intermittent voice" : the Africana women's aesthetic tradition.
Also available in print edition.
Electronic reproduction. [London, Eng. : Taylor and Francis, 2012]. PDF file created from digital scan of print book.