1st Edition
Trances, Dances and Vociferations Agency and Resistance in Africana Women's Narratives
By Nada Elia
Copyright 2001
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
183 Pages
by
Routledge
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Trances, Dances and Vociferations provides a compelling feminist analysis of gender politics in the works of four major Africana women writers: Toni Morrison, Michelle Cliff, Assia Djebar, and Paule Marshall. Nada Elia explores the way in which black women characters use conjuring, double entendre, and song to empower, liberate and determine their own female insurgency. She also explains how... Read more
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Titles 1. Introduction: Pre-Text: In the beginning all was sound 2. The Fourth Language: Subaltern Expression in Assia Djebar's Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade and A Sister to Scheherazade. 3. The Memories of Old Women: Alternative History in Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven and Free Enterprise 4. I'm Breaking My Vow of Silence: Reclaiming Speech in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow and Daughters 5. Under the Weight of Memory and Music: Contact Zones and Healing in Morrison's Song of Solomon and Paradise 6. Conclusion: With Nomad Memory and Intermittent Voice: The Africana Women's Aesthetic Tradition Works Consulted Index
Biography
Nada Elia is Scholar-in-Residence and Visiting Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies at Brown University.
