Multi-ethnicity as a resource for the literary imagination : the creative achievements of women artists, poets, and novelists / Pamela J. Rader ; with a foreword by Pamela J. Albert.

"Paula Gunn Allen, Myriam Chancy, Edwidge Danticat, Julie Dash, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Toni Morrison, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Carmen Tafolla."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reading twins and two-spirit characters in The woman who owned the shadows and Almanac of the dead -- Sor Juana, la malinche, Guadalupe, and the santera: iconoclastic revisions of the feminine -- The new spirit child: Africanisms in Beloved and Daughters of the dust -- Haiti's exiled daughters: migrations in the writings of Edwidge Danticat and Myriam J.A. Chancy.

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Through an analysis of culturally specific constructions of gender and spirituality in the verbal and visual texts, this study reveals syncretic presences and a new paradigm for reading. Furthermore, this project argues that these women create and install cultural citizenship, which proposes alternatives to postcolonial and global feminist paradigms.

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