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Saints, sinners, saviors : strong Black women in African American literature
- Title
- Saints, sinners, saviors : strong Black women in African American literature / Trudier Harris.
- Author
- Harris, Trudier
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave, 2001.
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Details
- Description
- vi, 218 p.; 21 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-208) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: the Black female body: seeing, believing and perpetuating popular and literary images -- A raisin in the sun: the strong Black woman as acceptable tyrant -- Strength and the battle ground of slavery: even parody: Ishmael Reed and Mammy Barracuda -- Strength and the battle ground of slavery: survival beyond survival: the price of strength in Beloved -- Commanding the universe: more than witch: Bambara's Minnie Ransom ; Tough enough to kill, tough enough to transcend death: J. California Cooper's Clora -- Strength as disease bordering on evil: Dorothy West's Cleo Judson -- The stubbornness of tradition: do what Big Mama sez: Ernest J. Gaines's A lesson before dying ; New territory, no change: Pearl Cleage's Flyin' west -- Balance?: Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the sower -- Conclusion: can this mold be broken?.
- Call Number
- Sc D 02-350
- ISBN
- 0312293038 (alk. paper)
- 0312293003
- LCCN
- 2001036009
- OCLC
- 47054735
- Author
- Harris, Trudier.
- Title
- Saints, sinners, saviors : strong Black women in African American literature / Trudier Harris.
- Imprint
- New York : Palgrave, 2001.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-208) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 02-350