Binding cultures
Subtitle: Black women writers in Africa and the diaspora
By: Gay Wilentz.
Series: Blacks in the diaspora
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
Subjects: American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; West African literature (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Literature, Comparative -- West African (English) and American; Literature, Comparative -- American and West African (English); American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- United States; Women and literature -- Africa, West; African American women in literature; Women, Black, in literature; Folklore in literature; Africa, West -- Intellectual life; Africa, West -- In literature
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [127]-134) and index.