Mythatypes Signatures and Signs of African/Diaspora and Black Goddesses

Name: Mythatypes Signatures and Signs of African/Diaspora and Black Goddesses
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ISBN: 9780313310683

ISBN-10: 0313310688

ISBN-13: 9780313310683

Edition: 2000

Authors: Alexis Brooks De Vita

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Dr. Alexis Brooks De Vita takes up the challenge to develop culturally relevant modes of literary analysis of African/Diaspora literatures by identifying traditional African and Diaspora figures of myth, religion, legend, and history that interact with African and Diaspora literary heroines and their authors. Following upon Karla Holloway's arguments in Moorings and Metaphors that African American and West African women share strong traits of storytelling that both isolate and identify their literatures, Brooks De Vita traces these traits to their religious, legendary, and historical sources, identifying African and Diaspora female figures of power whose interaction with literary…

Book details

List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 6/30/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments



Introduction: Reading African/Diaspora Women's Mythatypes



Trees as Spiritual Mothers



She Who Nurtures and Devours



Child Sacrifice and Salvation



Rape and Rage



Air and Fire, Bringing Rain



Cruelty, Castration, and Claiming



The River and the Wall



Conclusion: This Moment of Epiphany


Afterword


Selected Bibliography


Index