Worrying the line : black women writers, lineage, and literary tradition / Cheryl A. Wall.
Series: Gender & American culturePublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.Description: xii, 309 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 0807829277 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0807855863 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism
- American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- 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
- 810.9/9287/08996073 22
- PS374.N4 W354 2005
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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 ...