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100 1 $aWinsbro, Bonnie C.
245 10 $aSupernatural forces :$bbelief, difference, and power in contemporary works by ethnic women /$cBonnie Winsbro.
260 $aAmherst :$bUniversity of Massachusetts Press,$c©1993.
300 $axi, 218 pages ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 191-210) and index.
505 0 $aBelief, ethnicity, and self-definition -- A witch and her curse : external definition and uncrossable boundaries in Lee Smith's Oral history -- Predator, scavenger, and trickster-transformer : survival and the visionary experience in Louise Erdrich's Tracks -- Calling Tayo back, unraveling coyote's skin : individuation in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony -- Modern rationality and the supernatural : bridging two worlds in Gloria Naylor's Mama day -- The ghost as demon and savior : confrontation with the past in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Warring with ghosts : power through individuation in Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior.
530 $aAlso issued online.
520 $aThe relationship between humans and their gods has always been a primary theme in literature. Until recently, however, books in the American literary canon have rarely been concerned with any supernatural beings other than the Judeo-Christian god. In this book Bonnie Winsbro moves beyond that narrow focus to examine the power of the supernatural in the works of six ethnic writers: Lee Smith's Oral History, Louise Erdrich's Tracks, Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, Gloria Naylor's Mama Day, Toni Morrison's Beloved, and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts. By selecting these authors, Winsbro provides a multicultural perspective - Appalachian, Native American, African American, and Chinese American - on the internal turmoil experienced by ethnic individuals when their belief systems clash with those of family, community, or dominant culture. Although their responses to such conflicts differ, Winsbro argues, all six authors believe that personal power is acquired through self-definition, the process by which one constructs one's own reality as a foundation for living in one's own center rather than on another's margins. By analyzing works that treat seriously a belief in such supernatural figures as witches, healers, and ghosts, Winsbro seeks to show that the contemporary world is not defined by one reality - a rationalistic, scientific reality, for example, or a Judeo-Christian reality - but by many realities. Indeed, acknowledging the coexistence, collision, and coalescence of multiple realities is one of the distinguishing features of postmodern life.
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