Maternal metaphors of power in African American women's literature : from Phillis Wheatley to Toni M...
Maternal metaphors of power in African American women's literature : from Phillis Wheatley to Toni M...
Maternal metaphors of power in African American women's literature : from Phillis Wheatley to Toni Morrison / Geneva Cobb Moore ; foreword by Andrew Billingsley.
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Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2017]
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G 2020/0444
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English
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xiv, 361 pages ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: Signs of regeneration in African American women's literature -- Part 1: Slavery and abolitionism, freedom and Jim Crow America. Phillis Wheatley's seminaked body as symbol and metaphor ; Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl : a Freudian reading of neurotic and sexed b...
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Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2017]
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South Carolina
Date Published
[2017]
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"Geneva Cobb Moore deftly combines literature, history, criticism, and theory in Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature by offering insight into the historical black experience from slavery to freedom as depicted in the literature of nine female writers across several centuries. Moore traces black women writers' creation...
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Maternal metaphors of power in African American women's literature : from Phillis Wheatley to Toni Morrison / Geneva Cobb Moore ; foreword by Andrew Billingsley.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-346) and index.
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G 2020/0444
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74VKaZLzjZMl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaZLzjZMl
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9781611177480 (hardback)
1611177480 (hardback)
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810.9928708996073
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991024291016002626
