The African Continuum and Contemporary African American Women Writers

Their Literary Presence and Ancestral Past

von Marion Kraft

292 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Starting from the principle of the African continuum and based on concepts of an afrocentric feminist epistemology, this study traces back African cultural traditions and narrative strategies in works by African American women writers. It examines the inscription of the Black woman's voice into the Western text and analyses conceptions of female bonding, flexible gender roles, matrilineal myths and legends, trickster figures, folktales, tonal language and double-voiced structures of address as constituting elements in the development of a specific literary canon of women writers of the African diaspora in the USA. Focusing on these textual politics, the study aims at contributing to the ongoing discourse on Black feminist aesthetics.

• Reihe: Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
• ISBN: 9783631490822
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.1995
• Genre: Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften