Haunting capital
Subtitle: memory, text and the Black diasporic body
By: Hershini Bhana Young.
Series: Reencounters with colonialism--new perspectives on the Americas
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Hanover, N.H; Dartmouth College Press
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781584655183; 9781584655190
Subjects: Southern African fiction (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism; American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism; American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- Africa, Southern; Women and literature -- United States; Wounds and injuries in literature; Women, Black, in literature; Body, Human, in literature; Imperialism in literature; Sex role in literature; Memory in literature; Race in literature
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : memory, text, body; title: Opening heads and reaching shores : reading ghostly desire in Bessie Head's A question of power and Deborah Jack's Shore; title: Between a push and a fall : the politics of re-memory in Gayl Jones's Corregidora; title: Hungry women : economies of injury in Tsitsi Dangarembga' Nervous conditions; title: The wounding of displacement : looking for home in Maryse Condé's Hérémakhonon; title: Coda : the haunting distance between two places, South Africa and South Carolina.