The Daughter's Return
African-American and Caribbean Women's Fictions of History
1st Edition
Published on 12. April 2001
278 pages
978-0-19-535003-6 (ISBN)
Description
The Daughter's Return offers a close analysis of an emerging genre in African-American and Caribbean fiction produced by women writers who make imaginative returns to their ancestral pasts. Considering some of the defining texts of contemporary fiction--Toni Morrison's Beloved, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, and Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven--Rody discusses their common inclusion of a daughter who returns to the site of her people's founding trauma of slavery through memory or magic. Rody treats these texts as allegorical expressions of the desire of writers newly emerging into cultural authority to reclaim their difficult inheritance, and finds a counter plot of heroines' encounters with women of other racial and ethnic groups running through these works.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction: The Daughter's Return
- PART I: AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS
- 1. Toni Morrison's Beloved: History, "Rememory", and a "Clamor for a Kiss
- 2. Adventures of the Magic Black Daughter: History and "Renaissance" in Contemporary African-American Women's Fictions
- Mothering the Renaissance
- Return of the Magic Black Daughter
- 3. Further Adventures of the Magic Black Daughter
- One Dark Body
- Variations on Childbirth
- Coda
- PART II: CARIBBEAN WOMEN WRITERS
- 4. Caribbean Women's Literature and the Mother of History
- Recovering the Mother-Island
- The Caribbean Daughter's Return
- Jamaica Kincaid and the Maternal Void of History
- 5. Burning Down the House: Daughterly Revision in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea
- 6. Decolonizing Jamaica's Daughter: Learning History in the Novels of Michelle Cliff
- The Novel as Abeng
- Becoming History: No Telephone to Heaven
- 7. Crossing Water: Maryse Condé's I, Tituba and the Horizontal Plot
- Epilogue: History, Horizontality, and the Postcolonial Hester Prynne: On Condé, Mukherjee, and Morrison
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
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