The grasp that reaches beyond the grave [electronic resource] : the ancestral call in black women's texts / Venetria K. Patton.
Material type: TextPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, c2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)ISBN:- 9781438447384
- 810.9/928708996073 23
- PS153.N5 P37 2013
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.
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