The grasp that reaches beyond the grave [electronic resource] : the ancestral call in black women's texts / Venetria K. Patton.

By: Patton, Venetria K, 1968-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, c2013Description: x, 216 pISBN: 9781438447384 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism | American literature -- African influences | African American women -- Intellectual life -- 20th century | African Americans in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/928708996073 LOC classification: PS153.N5 | P37 2013Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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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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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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