Multi-ethnicity as a resource for the literary imagination
Subtitle: the creative achievements of women artists, poets, and novelists
By: Pamela J. Rader ; with a foreword by Pamela J. Albert.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773438934
Subjects: American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Ethnicity in literature; Multiculturalism in literature; Minority women in literature; Feminism in literature
Notes: "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.
Table of contents: title: Reading twins and two-spirit characters in The woman who owned the shadows and Almanac of the dead; title: Sor Juana, la malinche, Guadalupe, and the santera: iconoclastic revisions of the feminine; title: The new spirit child: Africanisms in Beloved and Daughters of the dust; title: Haiti's exiled daughters: migrations in the writings of Edwidge Danticat and Myriam J. A. Chancy.