Close kin and distant relatives : the paradox of respectability in Black women's literature /

Close kin and distant relatives : the paradox of respectability in Black women's literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morris, Susana M., 1980- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014.
Subjects:
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Families in literature.
Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction-Family matters
  • A wide confraternity: diaspora and family in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the widow
  • Sins of the mother?: ambivalence, agency, and the family romance in Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John
  • Daughters of this land: genealogies of resistance in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory
  • The language of family: talking back to narratives of Black pathology in Sapphire's Push
  • Epilogue.