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The Daughter's Return
Caroline Rody
其他書名
African-American and Caribbean Women's Fictions of History
出版Oxford University Press, 2001
主題Fiction / GeneralLITERARY CRITICISM / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / African American & BlackLiterary Criticism / Caribbean & Latin AmericanLiterary Criticism / Women AuthorsLiterary Criticism / Semiotics & TheoryLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Women
ISBN01951388809780195138887
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=u2XnCwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The Daughter's Return offers a close analysis of an emerging genre in African-American and Caribbean fiction produced by women writers who make imaginative returns to their ancestral pasts. Considering some of the defining texts of contemporary fiction--Toni Morrison's Beloved, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, and Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven--Rody discusses their common inclusion of a daughter who returns to the site of her people's founding trauma of slavery through memory or magic. Rody treats these texts as allegorical expressions of the desire of writers newly emerging into cultural authority to reclaim their difficult inheritance, and finds a counter plot of heroines' encounters with women of other racial and ethnic groups running through these works.