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020 _a0807829277 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 _a0807855863 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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_bW354 2005
082 0 0 _a810.9/9287/08996073
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100 1 _aWall, Cheryl A.
245 1 0 _aWorrying the line :
_bblack women writers, lineage, and literary tradition /
_cCheryl A. Wall.
260 _aChapel Hill :
_bUniversity of North Carolina Press,
_cc2005.
300 _axii, 309 p. :
_bill. ;
_c25 cm.
490 1 _aGender and American culture
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [279]-294) and index.
505 0 _aPrologue: I Looked Down the Line ... -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Reconstructing Lineage, Revising Tradition in Song of Solomon and Zami -- 3. On the Line to Dahomey: Charting Generations -- 4. Recollections of Kin: Beloved and The Black Book -- 5. Trouble in Mind: Blues and History in Corregidora -- 6. Writing beyond the Blues: The Color Purple -- 7. Extending the Line: From Sula to Mama Day -- 8. Bare Bones and Silken Threads: Lineage and Literary Tradition in Praisesong for the Widow -- 9. In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens and Our Fathers' (Real) Estates: Alice Walker, Essayist -- Epilogue : Moving On Down the Line ...
650 0 _aAmerican fiction
_xAfrican American authors
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aAmerican fiction
_xWomen authors
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aAmerican fiction
_y20th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aDomestic fiction, American
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aAmerican prose literature
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aAfrican American women
_xIntellectual life.
650 0 _aAfrican American families in literature.
650 0 _aInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
650 0 _aGenealogy in literature.
650 0 _aKinship in literature.
650 0 _aFamily in literature.
830 0 _aGender & American culture.
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