Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History : Migration and Identity in Black Women's Literature /
"Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History: Migration and Identity in Black Women's Literature brings together a series of essays addressing black women's fragmented identities and quests for wholeness. The individual essays concern culturally specific experiences of blacks in...
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| Language: | English |
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Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press,
[2006]
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Table of Contents:
- Conflicting identities in the women of Ama Ata Aidoo's drama and fiction / Violet Harrington Bryan
- Coming to voice: navigating the interstices in plays by Winsome Pinnock / DeLinda Marzette
- Migration, transformation, and identity formation in Buchi Emecheta's In the ditch and Kehinde / Romanus Muoneke
- Gloria Naylor's north/south dichotomy and the reversal of the middle passage : juxtaposed migrations within Mama Day / Kathryn M. Paterson
- Reconfiguring self: a matter of place in selected novels by Paule Marshall / Marie Foster Gnage
- "What a history you have": ancestral memory, cultural history, migration patterns, and the quest for autonomy in the fiction of Jamaica Kincaid / Julia De Foor Jay
- "Tee, ", "Cyn-Cyn," "Cynthia," "Dou-dou": remembering and forgetting the "true-true name" in Merle Hodge's Crick crack, monkey / Joyce Zonana
- Place and displacement in Djanet Sears's Harlem duet and The adventures of a black girl in search of god / Elizabeth Brown-Guillory
- Recovering the past: transatlantic migration, hybrid identities, and healing in Tess Onwueme's The missing face / Juluette Bartlett-Pack.