Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History Migration and Identity in Black Women's Literature / edited by Elizabeth Brown-Guillory. - 1 online resource (xiii, 201 p.) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-197) and index.

Conflicting identities in the women of Ama Ata Aidoo's drama and fiction / Violet Harrington Bryan -- Coming to voice: navigating the interstices in plays by Winsome Pinnock / DeLinda Marzette -- Migration, transformation, and identity formation in Buchi Emecheta's In the ditch and Kehinde / Romanus Muoneke -- Gloria Naylor's north/south dichotomy and the reversal of the middle passage : juxtaposed migrations within Mama Day / Kathryn M. Paterson -- Reconfiguring self: a matter of place in selected novels by Paule Marshall / Marie Foster Gnage -- "What a history you have": ancestral memory, cultural history, migration patterns, and the quest for autonomy in the fiction of Jamaica Kincaid / Julia De Foor Jay -- "Tee,", "Cyn-Cyn," "Cynthia," "Dou-dou": remembering and forgetting the "true-true name" in Merle Hodge's Crick crack, monkey / Joyce Zonana -- Place and displacement in Djanet Sears's Harlem duet and The adventures of a black girl in search of god / Elizabeth Brown-Guillory -- Recovering the past: transatlantic migration, hybrid identities, and healing in Tess Onwueme's The missing face / Juluette Bartlett-Pack.

Open Access

9780814291160 0814291163




Women in literature.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Women and literature--History--English-speaking countries--20th century.
Commonwealth literature (English)--Black authors--History and criticism.
Commonwealth literature (English)--Women authors--History and criticism.


Electronic books.

PR9080.5 / .M54 2006

820.9/9287/09171241