Postcolonial perspectives on women writers from Africa, the Caribbean, and the US / edited by Martin Japtok.

Other author Japtok, Martin.
Format Book
Publication InfoTrenton, NJ : Africa World Press, ©2003.
Descriptionxxix, 348 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
Literature--Women authors. --History and criticism.
Literature, Modern--20th century. --History and criticism.
African literature--History and criticism.
African literature (English)--History and criticism.
Caribbean literature--History and criticism.
American literature--African American authors. --History and criticism.

Contents In a shattered glass : Harriet Jacobs's archaeology of slaveholder subjectivity /Joy Viveros -- From 'spy-glass' to 'horizon' : tracking the anthropological gaze in Zora Neale Hurston / Karen Jacobs -- Yes, anyone with half an eye could see that it wasn't she : Helga Crane's artistic decolonization / Venetria Patton -- Recontextualizing women's history : Ursa Corregidora as a 'blues arachne' / Tanya Monier -- Breaking canonical chains : Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills / Tracey Thornton -- Can't leave home without it : the paradox of memory in Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy / Paulette Brown-Hinds -- Remaking the wor(l)d : a poetics of resistance and transformation in Marlene Nourbese Philip's She tries her tongue : her silence softly breaks / Shara McCallum -- Beyond recognition : heritage and identity in Paule Marshall's The chosen place, the timeless people / Joy M. Lynch -- Rising in the ashes : reading Krik? Krak! as a response to Can the subaltern speak? / Carmen Nge -- (Re-)writing the marginalized body : Grace Nichols's The fat black woman's poems / Melissa Johnson -- Ramatoulaye's letter : cross-cultural reading strategies & the criticism of Mariama Ba's so long a letter / Merri Lisa Johnson -- Self-colonization and racial identity in Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy or reflections from a black-eyed squint / James M. Ivory -- Women's utopic impulses in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra / Su Fang ng -- Loose or decent, I don't know : space, self, and nation in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions / Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt -- Location and separateness in African and African-American drama : a study of Hilda Kuper's A witch in my heart and Lorraine Hansberry's A raisin in the sun / Chinyere G. Okafor.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2002152573
ISBN1592210678 (hardcover)
ISBN1592210686 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks PN471 .P67 2003 ✔ Available Place Hold