TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patton,Venetria K.
TI  - The grasp that reaches beyond the grave: the ancestral call in black women's texts 
SN  - 9781438447384
AV  - PS153 .G737 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - African Americans in literature
KW  - African American women
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - American literature
KW  - African influences
KW  - African American authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
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