Worrying the line : black women writers, lineage, and literary tradition /

Title:

Worrying the line : black women writers, lineage, and literary tradition /

Author:

Wall, Cheryl A.

Format:

Book

Institution:

Lesley Sherrill, MassArt

Contents:

Introduction -- Reconstructing lineage, revising tradition in Song of Solomon and Zami -- On the line to Dahomey : charting Generations -- Recollections of kin : Beloved and The black book -- Trouble in mind : blues and history in Corregidora -- Writing beyond the blues : The color purple -- Extending the line : from Sula to Mama day -- Bare bones and silken threads : lineage and literary tradition in Praisesong for the widow -- In search of our mothers' gardens and our fathers' (real) estate : Alice Walker, essayist -- Epilogue : moving on down the line ...

Online access:

No online access

Library holdings:

Lesley/EDS-Sherrill Library Main Stacks
PS374.N4 W354 2005 – Available

MassArt Main
PS374.N4 W354 2005 – Available

• Available Temporarily at MassArt Reserves
  On reserve for LALW 200: Literary Traditions (Humanities: Sass)