Worrying the line : black women writers, lineage, and literary tradition /
Wall, Cheryl A.
Worrying the line : black women writers, lineage, and literary tradition / Cheryl A. Wall. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005. - xii, 309 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Gender and American culture . - Gender & American culture. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-294) and index.
Prologue: 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 ...
0807829277 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807855863 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2004018014
American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.
American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Domestic fiction, American--History and criticism.
American prose literature--History and criticism.
African American women--Intellectual life.
African American families in literature.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Genealogy in literature.
Kinship in literature.
Family in literature.
PS374.N4 / W354 2005
810.9/9287/08996073
Worrying the line : black women writers, lineage, and literary tradition / Cheryl A. Wall. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005. - xii, 309 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Gender and American culture . - Gender & American culture. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-294) and index.
Prologue: 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 ...
0807829277 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807855863 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2004018014
American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.
American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Domestic fiction, American--History and criticism.
American prose literature--History and criticism.
African American women--Intellectual life.
African American families in literature.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Genealogy in literature.
Kinship in literature.
Family in literature.
PS374.N4 / W354 2005
810.9/9287/08996073