TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patton,Venetria K.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The grasp that reaches beyond the grave: the ancestral call in black women's texts 
SN  - 9781438447384
AV  - PS153.N5 P37 2013
U1  - 810.9/928708996073 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - African Americans in literature
KW  - African American women
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - American literature
KW  - African influences
KW  - African American authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Revising the legacy of kinlessness through elders and ancestors -- Othermothers as elders and culture bearers in Daughters of the dust and The salt eaters -- Ancestral prodding in Praisesong for the widow -- Ancestral disturbances in Stigmata -- Beloved, a ghost story with an Ogbanje twist -- The child figure as a means to ancestral knowledge in Daughters of the dust and A Sunday in June
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781438447384/
ER  -