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The African Continuum and Contemporary African American Women Writers: Their Literary Presence and Ancestral Past

The African Continuum and Contemporary African American Women Writers: Their Literary Presence and Ancestral Past

Kraft, Marion

Paperback

Series: Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studie, Book 293

English as a Second LanguageLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 3631490828
ISBN13: 9783631490822
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Jul 1 1995
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.81 Depth: 8.21
Language: English
Starting from the principle of the African continuum and based on concepts of an afrocentric feminist epistemology, this study traces back African cultural traditions and narrative strategies in works by African American women writers. It examines the inscription of the Black woman's voice into the Western text and analyses conceptions of female bonding, flexible gender roles, matrilineal myths and legends, trickster figures, folktales, tonal language and double-voiced structures of address as constituting elements in the development of a specific literary canon of women writers of the African diaspora in the USA. Focusing on these textual politics, the study aims at contributing to the ongoing discourse on Black feminist aesthetics.

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