Trances, dances, and vociferations : agency and resistance in Africana women's narratives /
Elia, Nada.
New York ; London : Garland Pub.,
2001.
Pre-text: in the beginning all was sound -- "The fourth language": subaltern expression in Assia Djebar's Fantasia: an Algerian cavalcade and A sister to scheherazade -- "The memories of old women": alternative history in Michelle Cliff's No telephone to heaven and Free enterprise -- "I'm breaking my vow of silence": reclaiming speech in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the widow and daughters -- "Under the weight of memory and music": contact zones and healing in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Paradise -- Conclusion: "With nomad memory and intermittent voice": the Africana women's aesthetic tradition.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-164) and index.
Djebar, Assia, 1936-
Cliff, Michelle
American fiction
American fiction
Women and literature
Women and literature
African American women in literature.
Feminism in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Women in literature.