The grasp that reaches beyond the grave : the ancestral call in black women's texts / / Venetria K. Patton.
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | x, 216 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.