The grasp that reaches beyond the grave : the ancestral call in black women's texts / Venetria K. Patton.
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TextPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2013.Description: 1 online resource (224 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781438447384
- 1438447388
- African Americans in literature
- African American women -- Intellectual life
- American literature -- African influences
- American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- African American women -- Intellectual life
- African Americans in literature
- American literature -- African American authors
- American literature -- African influences
- 810.9/928708996073 23
- PS153.N5 P37 2013
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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