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Binding Cultures Gay Wilentz

Binding Cultures By Gay Wilentz

Binding Cultures by Gay Wilentz


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The history of their literature predates Black women's acquisition of literacy. This book investigates the cultural bonds between African and African-American women as illustrated in the writings of contemporary authors of United States and West Africa.

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Binding Cultures: Black Women Writers in Africa and the Diaspora by Gay Wilentz

Wilentz . . . makes convincing arguments for the connections between African and Afro-American women's culture. -Nellie McKay

Wilentz's jargon-free, intelligent discussion . . . will appeal to students in African, African American, and women's literature courses, as well as general readers interested in the emerging field. -Choice

Through these works, Wilentz demonstrates the powerful transformation possible through understanding-and embracing-the past, even if that past includes oppression and brutalization. -Belles Lettres

Binding Cultures investigates the cultural bonds between African and African-American women writers such as Nigerian Flora Nwapa and Ghanaians Efua Sutherland and Ama Ata Aidoo, writers who focus on the role of women in passing on cultural values to future generations, and African-American writers Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and Paule Marshall, who self-consciously evoke African culture to help create a more integrated African-American community.

Binding Cultures Reviews

Wilentz's jargon-free, intelligent discussion ... will appeal to students in African, African American, and women's literature courses, as well as general readers interested in the emerging field. Choice Through these works, Wilentz demonstrates the powerful transformation possible through understanding - and embracing - the past, even if that past includes oppression and brutalization. Belles Lettres The theoretical apparatus which forms the foundation [of Binding Cultures] will cause it to be a source that succeeding critics will not be able to ignore... Wilentz has done her research thoroughly, and makes convincing arguments for the connections between African and Afro-American women's culture. Nellie McKay

About Gay Wilentz

GAY WILENTZ is Assistant Professor of English at East Carolina University. She has published essays in College English, Research in African Literatures, Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature, and MELUS.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

I The Africans
1 Flora Nwapa, Efuru
2 Efua Sutherland, Foriwa
3 Ama Ata Aidoo, The Dilemma of a Ghost

II The African-Americans
4 Alice Walker, The Color Purple
5 Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
6 Paule Marshall, Praisesong for the Widow

Conclusion

Notes
Works Cited and Select Bibliography
Index

Additional information

CIN0253207142G
9780253207142
0253207142
Binding Cultures: Black Women Writers in Africa and the Diaspora by Gay Wilentz
Used - Good
Paperback
Indiana University Press
19920522
176
N/A
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