African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
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;
Houston,Elsie (Author) and Araujo,Emanoel (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
São Paulo: Negras Memórias
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
32 p, Catalog from the exhibition, Negras Memórias, Memórias de Negros. "Outubro 2003"--Colophon. Disc offers a selection of 14 tracks recorded from 1930, all presenting themes and folk rhythms and songs.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Prev. ed. published: Rio de Janeiro: EdUERJ, 1996, 268 p., Contents: 1. A matriz africana no mundo -- 2. Cultura em movimento : matrizes africanas e ativismo negro no Brasil -- 3. Guerreiras de natureza : mulher negra, religiosidade e ambiente -- 4. Afrocentricidade : uma abordagem epistemológica inovadora.
