Close kin and distant relatives : the paradox of respectability in Black women's literature / Susana M. Morris

Author: Morris, Susana M., 1980-
Published: Charlottesville, [Virginia] : University of Virginia Press, 2014.
Physical Description: x, 178 pages ; 24 cm

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Contents

Introduction-Family matters -- A wide confraternity: diaspora and family in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the widow -- Sins of the mother?: ambivalence, agency, and the family romance in Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John -- Daughters of this land: genealogies of resistance in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory -- The language of family: talking back to narratives of Black pathology in Sapphire's Push -- Epilogue.

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9780813935492 (cloth : alk. paper)
0813935490 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813935508 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813935504 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813935515 (e-book)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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