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How three Black women writers combined spiritual and sensual love : rhetorically transcending the boundaries of language (Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, and Dionne Brand) / Cherie Ann Turpin ; with a foreword by Frank E. Dobson.
- Title
- How three Black women writers combined spiritual and sensual love : rhetorically transcending the boundaries of language (Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, and Dionne Brand) / Cherie Ann Turpin ; with a foreword by Frank E. Dobson.
- Author
- Turpin, Cherie Ann.
- Publication
- Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2010.
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| Text | Request in advance | PS153.N5 T86 2010 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- vii, 110 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Brand, Dionne, 1953- > Criticism and interpretation
- Morrison, Toni > Criticism and interpretation
- Lorde, Audre > Criticism and interpretation
- Women, Black, in literature
- Eroticism in literature
- Sex in literature
- Love in literature
- African diaspora in literature
- American literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword / Frank Dobson -- Chapter One. African Diaspora, Gender and the Erotic -- Recovering the Erotic and Black Womanhood -- From Black Arts to Black Feminist Criticism -- The Erotic and Black Feminist Aesthetics -- Chapter Two. Lesbian Eros and Narrative in Audre Lorde's Zami -- Biomythography and the Language of Storytelling -- Pleasure in Language -- The Poetry of Lesbian Subjectivity -- Chapter Three. Sensual Narrative in Toni Morrison's Jazz -- "A Body Made of Language" -- The City and the Language of Desire -- The Sounds of Pleasure -- Violence and Pleasure -- Chapter Four. Framing History in Dionne Brand's At the Full and Change of the Moon -- Language as Resistance and Restoring the Self -- Egun in the Machine: Marie Ursulie, "Queen of Ruin" -- The Two Bolas -- Priest/Adrian: Resurrecting or Doubling One Story -- Persistence of the Erotic: Cordelia, Maya, and Eulalie -- Chapter Five. Erotic Subjectivity and Africana Women Writers.
- ISBN
- 9780773438392
- 0773438394
- LCCN
- ^^2009049180
- OCLC
- 474869831
- SCSB-10980827
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library