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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Caroline Rody |
| ISBN: | 0195138880 9780195138887 |
| OCLC Number: | 43567370 |
| Description: | x, 267 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Part I: African-American Women Writers -- 1. Toni Morrison's Beloved: History, "Rememory," and a "Clamor for a Kiss" -- 2. Adventures of the Magic Black Daughter: History and "Renaissance" in Contemporary African-American Women's Fictions -- 3. Further Adventures of the Magic Black Daughter -- Part II: Caribbean Women Writers -- 4. Caribbean Women's Literature and the Mother of History -- 5. Burning Down the House: Daughterly Revision in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea -- 6. Decolonizing Jamaica's Daughter: Learning History in the Novels of Michelle Cliff -- 7. Crossing Water: Maryse Conde's I. Tituba and the Horizontal Plot -- Epilogue: History, Horizontality, and the Postcolonial Hester Prynne: On Conde, Mukherjee, and Morrison |
| Responsibility: | Caroline Rody. |
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<br>"Rody's revisionary literary criticism offers new and persuasive ways to understand the 'renaissance' of African-American women writers and of Caribbean women writers during the past three decades.... Rich in its innovative thinking and...rewarding in its textual analyses.... Will provide grounds for discussion and argument for years to come."--Virginia Quarterly Review<br>.."..A welcome addition to a growing body of criticism examining strategies used by fiction writers of the Americas to explore the lasting effects of New World slavery in the lives of contemporary men and women."--Missippi Quarterly<br>"The Daughter's Return is a beautiful and brilliant contribution to feminist scholarship."--Signs<br>"Meticulously researched and admirably lucid in style and argument, The Daughter's Return is an immensely readable as well as an intellectually robust addition to and intervention in the critical response to African American and Caribbean women's writing."--Contemporary Literature Read more...
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