Inspiriting influences : tradition, revision, and Afro-American women's novels / Michael Awkward.
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TextSeries: Gender and culturePublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, c1989.Description: x, 178 p. ; 23 cmISBN: - 0231068069 (alk. paper)
- American fiction -- Afro-American authors -- History and criticism
- American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Afro-American women -- Intellectual life
- Afro-American women in literature
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Intertextuality
- 813/.5/099287 19
- PS153.N5 A94 1989
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Bibliography: p. [165]-174.
Includes index.
Introduction : "mah tongue is in mah friend's mouf" : toward an intertextual reading of Afro-American women's novels -- "The inaudible voice of it all" : silence, voice, and action in Their eyes were watching God" -- "The evil of fulfillment" : scapegoating and narration in The bluest eye -- Authorial dreams of wholeness : (dis)unity, (literary) parentage, and The women of Brewster Place -- The color purple and the achievement of (comm)unity.
WAR, NEWBERY,