TY - BOOK AU - Thorsson,Courtney ED - Project Muse. TI - Women's work: nationalism and contemporary African American women's novels SN - 9780813934495 AV - PS374.N4 T49 2013 U1 - 813.009/896073 21 PY - 2013/// CY - Charlottesville PB - University of Virginia Press KW - African American women KW - Employment KW - In literature KW - National characteristics, American, in literature KW - African American women in literature KW - American fiction KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism KW - African American authors KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Organizing her nation:Toni Cade Bambara's The salt eaters -- Cooking up a nation: Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo -- Dancing up a nation: Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the widow -- Mapping and moving nation: Gloria Naylor's Mama day -- Inscribing community: Toni Morrison's Paradise UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813934495/ ER -