TY - BOOK AU - Patton,Venetria K. ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - The grasp that reaches beyond the grave: the ancestral call in black women's texts AV - PS153.N5 P37 2013 U1 - 810.9/928708996073 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Albany PB - State University of New York Press KW - American literature KW - African American authors KW - History and criticism KW - African influences KW - African American women KW - Intellectual life KW - 20th century KW - African Americans in literature KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3408749 ER -