The daughter's return : African-American and Caribbean women's fictions of history / Caroline Rody.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-258) and index.

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This work offers an analysis of an emerging genre in African-American and Caribbean fiction: the novels of black women writers who have returned to their ancestral past. In novels like Toni Morrison's "Beloved", Jean Rhys' "Wide Sargasso Sea", and Maryse Conde's "I, Tituba", "magical" black daughters return to sites of trauma through visions, dreams, and memories. Rody reads 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.

Contents; Introduction: The Daughter's Return; 1. Toni Morrison's Beloved: History, "Rememory", and a "Clamor for a Kiss"; 2. Adventures of the Magic Black Daughter: History and "Renaissance" in Contemporary African-American Women's Fictions; 3. Further Adventures of the Magic Black Daughter; 4. Caribbean Women's Literature and the Mother of History; 5. Burning Down the House: Daughterly Revision in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea; 6. Decolonizing Jamaica's Daughter: Learning History in the Novels of Michelle Cliff; 7. Crossing Water: Maryse Condé's I, Tituba and the Horizontal Plot; Notes.

Works CitedIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z.

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