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The grasp that reaches beyond the grave the ancestral call in black women's texts
Record details
- ISBN: 9781438447384 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1438447388 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9781438447377 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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1 online resource (224 p.) - Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, c2013.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: Revising the legacy of kinlessness through elders and ancestors -- Othermothers as elders and culture bearers in Daughters of the dust and The salt eaters -- Ancestral prodding in Praisesong for the widow -- Ancestral disturbances in Stigmata -- Beloved, a ghost story with an Ogbanje twist -- The child figure as a means to ancestral knowledge in Daughters of the dust and A Sunday in June. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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