African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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218 p, Contents: Origins of the divestiture trope in selected literature of the African diaspora -- Diaspora as a trope for the existential condition -- Resonances of the African continent in selected fiction and non-fiction by Zora Neale Hurston -- Orphanage in Simone Schwarz-Bart's The bridge of beyond and Alice Walker's The third life of Grange Copeland -- Polyphonic texture of the trope "junkheaped" in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Sociological implications of female abandonment in Buchi Emecheta's Second class citizen and The joys of motherhood -- Success phobia of Deighton Boyce in Paul Marshall's Brown girl, Brownstones -- Madness as a response to the female situation of disinheritance in Mariama Bâ's So long a letter and Scarlet song -- Exile of the elderly in Beryl Gilroy's Frangipani house and Boy-Sandwich -- Conclusion: abandonment as a trope for the human condition;
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201 p, Focuses on the literature of Caribbean women writers in the 1980s and 1990s particularly the fiction of Jamaica Kincaid, Erna Brodber, Marlene Nourbese Philip, and Merle Hodge. (Amazon.com)
Gutiérrez de Velasco,Luzelena (Author), Prado,Gloria (Author), and Domenella,Ana Rosa (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1999
Published:
México, D.F. ; UAM-Iztapalapa: Colegio de México, Iztapalapa
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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407 p, Aunque parezca un clisé, los pesares y las alegrías definen la vida de los seres humanos. Este volumen reúne deiversas lecturas sobre escritoras latinoamericanas -entre otras cosas, Clarice Lispector, Luisa Valenzuela, Rosario Ferré, Victoria Ocampo, Isabel Allende, Cristina Peri Rossi- a partir de esos dos ejes temáticos. Los acercamientos se sustentan en propuestas metodólogicas y enfoques teóricos de actualidad. www.libreria.mora.edu.mx; Project undertaken by the Taller de Teoría y Crítica Literaria "Diana Morán"-Coyoacán
Rodríguez Guglielmoni,Linda M. (Author), González Hernández,Miriam Mercedes (Author), and Linda M. Rodríguez Guglielmoni,Miriam M.González Hernández (Editor)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
Bronx, NY: Latino Press, Latin American Writers Institute, Eugenio María de Hostos Community College, CUNY
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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253 p, International Conference of Caribbean Women Writers (7th : 2000 : Mayagüez, P.R.); Conference held Apr. 3-7, 2000, in Mayagüez and Ponce, R.
