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Mythatypes : signatures and signs of African/Diaspora and black goddesses
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Mythatypes : signatures and signs of African/Diaspora and black goddesses

Author: Alexis Brooks De Vita
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.
Series: Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 198.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This title seeks to analyze African / Diaspora women's literary voices and images. Dr Brooks De Vita aims to develop culturally relevant modes of literary analysis of African / Diaspora literatures  Read more...

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Genre/Form: In literature
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Brooks De Vita, Alexis.
Mythatypes.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000
(OCoLC)606525820
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Alexis Brooks De Vita
ISBN: 0313310688 9780313310683
OCLC Number: 42849649
Description: xiv, 180 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: reading African/diaspora women's mythatypes --
Trees as spiritual mothers --
She who nurtures and devours --
Child sacrifice and salvation --
Rape and rage --
Air and fire, bringing rain --
Cruelty, castration, and claiming --
The rivers and the wall --
Conclusion: the moment of epiphany.
Series Title: Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 198.
Responsibility: Alexis Brooks De Vita ; foreword by Ralph J. Hexter.

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.,."remarkable for its impressive scope of knowledge, particularly in the area of African lore and literature."-Research in African Literature

 
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