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the ancestral call in black women's texts

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English
Pages
216

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The grasp that reaches beyond the grave: the ancestral call in black women's texts
2013, State University of New York Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Revising the legacy of kinlessness through elders and ancestors
Othermothers as elders and culture bearers in Daughters of the dust and The salt eaters
Ancestral prodding in Praisesong for the widow
Ancestral disturbances in Stigmata
Beloved, a ghost story with an Ogbanje twist
The child figure as a means to ancestral knowledge in Daughters of the dust and A Sunday in June.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-209) and index.

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Albany

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
810.9/928708996073
Library of Congress
PS153.N5 P37 2013, PS153.N5P37 2013

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Pagination
x, 216 p.
Number of pages
216

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL30659153M
ISBN 13
9781438447377
LCCN
2012029400
OCLC/WorldCat
805544846

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