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Judylyn S. RyanPublication Details
BookUniversity of Virginia Press2005Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PN1995.9.N4 R93 2005 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Given the ways in which spirituality functions in the work of such Black women writers and filmmakers as Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange, Maya Angelou, Julie Dash, and Euzhan Palcy, Judylyn Ryan proposes in this challenging new study that what these women embrace in their narrative construction and characterization is the role and responsibility of the priestess, bearing and distributing “life-force” to sustain the community of people who read and view their work. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- African American women in motion pictures
- African American women motion picture producers and directors
- American literature — African American authors — History and criticism
- American literature — Women authors — History and criticism
- African American women — Intellectual life
- Women and literature — United States
- African American women in literature
- Spiritual life in literature
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Contents
- Interpreting spirituality
- Embracing responsibility: Maria Stewart, Toni Morrison
- Bearing life-force : Zora Neale Hurston, Ama Ata Aidoo, Ntozake Shange
- Reversing dispossession: Black Women’s Cinema
- Renewing self- possession: Euzhan Palcy, Julie Dash, Maureen Blackwood
- Charting futures: Grace Nichols, Maya Angelou, Estella Conwill Májozo
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- 0813923700
- 0813923697
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