Rody, Caroline,  1960- <br/><br/>
The daughter's return :  African-American and Caribbean women's fictions of history / 
Caroline Rody. 
 - New York :  Oxford University Press,  [(c)2001.] 
 - 1 online resource (x, 267 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/> Contents; Introduction: The Daughter's Return; 1. Toni Morrison's Beloved: History, "Rememory", and a "Clamor for a Kiss"; 2. Adventures of the Magic Black Daughter: History and "Renaissance" in Contemporary African-American Women's Fictions; 3. Further Adventures of the Magic Black Daughter; 4. Caribbean Women's Literature and the Mother of History; 5. Burning Down the House: Daughterly Revision in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea; 6. Decolonizing Jamaica's Daughter: Learning History in the Novels of Michelle Cliff; 7. Crossing Water: Maryse Condé's I, Tituba and the Horizontal Plot; Notes. Works CitedIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z. 
<br/><br/> This work offers an analysis of an emerging genre in African-American and Caribbean fiction: the novels of black women writers who have returned to their ancestral past. In novels like Toni Morrison's "Beloved", Jean Rhys' "Wide Sargasso Sea", and Maryse Conde's "I, Tituba", "magical" black daughters return to sites of trauma through visions, dreams, and memories. Rody reads these texts as allegorical expressions of the desire of writers newly emerging into cultural authority to reclaim their difficult inheritance, and finds a counter-plot of heroines' encounters with women of other racial and ethnic groups running through these works. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1429403977 9781429403979 1280531045 9781280531040 9780195350036 0195350030 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.<br/>Caribbean fiction (English)--Women authors--History and criticism.<br/>American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.<br/>Literature and history--English-speaking countries.<br/>Women and literature--English-speaking countries.<br/>African American women--Intellectual life.<br/>Women and literature--Caribbean Area.<br/>Women and literature--United States.<br/>African American women in literature.<br/>Mothers and daughters in literature.<br/>Daughters in literature.<br/>Return in literature.<br/>Women in literature.<br/>American fiction--History and criticism.<br/>Women and literature--History--20th century.<br/>Literature and history--History--20th century.<br/>American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS153.5