Africana women writers
Subtitle: performing diaspora, staging healing
By: DeLinda Marzette
Series: Studies on themes and motifs in literature -- v. 108
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433113802
Subjects: Caribbean drama (French); African drama; Black authors; History and criticism; American drama; English drama; Women, Black, in literature; Drama; Women authors; Themes, motives; African diaspora in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Making rite : w/riting renewal in an age of lunacy in selected works of Nicole Werewere Liking; title: Coming to voice : navigating the interstices in plays by Winsome Pinnock; title: Diasporic fissures and Afro-Caribbean identity in the plays of Simone Schwarz-Bart and Maryse Condé; title: Who measures the power of woman in spoons and scales : women's worth in Tess Onwueme's Tell it to women; title: For colored girls : treading storms, discovering rainbows.