TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wall,Cheryl A.
TI  - Worrying the line: black women writers, lineage, and literary tradition 
T2  - Gender and American culture
SN  - 0807829277 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - PS374.N4 W354 2005
U1  - 810.9/9287/08996073 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - American fiction
KW  - African American authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Women authors
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Domestic fiction, American
KW  - American prose literature
KW  - African American women
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - African American families in literature
KW  - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
KW  - Genealogy in literature
KW  - Kinship in literature
KW  - Family in literature
N1  - 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
ER  -