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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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Description
vi, 218 p.; 21 cm.
Subject
  • American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
  • Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century
  • American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • African American women in literature
  • Women in literature
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
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