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Published on: 2013-06-20
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Explores Black women writers’ treatment of the ancestor figure.The Grasp That Reaches beyond the Grave investigates the treatment of the ancestor figure in Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters, Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow, Phyllis Alesia Perry’s Stigmata and A Sunday in June, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Tananarive Due’s The Between, and Julie Dash’s film, Daughters of the Dust in order to understand how they draw on African cosmology and the interrelationship of ancestors, elders, and children to promote healing within the African American community. Venetria K. Patton suggests that the experience of slavery with its concomitant view of black women as “natally dead” has impacted African American women writers’ emphasis on elders and ancestors as they seek means to counteract notions of black women as somehow disconnected from the progeny of their wombs. This misperception is in part addressed via a rich kinship system, which includes the living and the dead. Patton notes an uncanny connection between depictions of elder, ancestor, and child figures in these texts and Kongo cosmology. These references suggest that these works are examples of Africanisms or African retentions, which continue to impact African American culture.“Patton makes a compelling argument about the significance of female relationships in African American culture as illustrated through stories that focus on mothers and daughters and on other female characters who fulfill the mother role, especially in connection to historical family figures … Though several of the novels she examines have been widely analyzed, Patton provides fresh insights into the characters and potential causes for their actions.” — CHOICE“Patton’s book examines systematically the living role of the elder and the ancestor in literary works by African American women. Bringing these roles and relationships into critical literary discourse is revelatory and real. Patton’s buttressing sources include not only those of the literary scholar, but also well-known works by scholars of African and African American art and religion. This is a wonderful and long overdue contribution.” — Joanne M. Braxton, Director, Middle Passage Project, College of William and MaryVenetria K. Patton is Associate Professor of English and Director of the African American Studies and Research Center at Purdue University. She is the author of Women in Chains: The Legacy of Slavery in Black Women’s Fiction, also published by SUNY Press, and coeditor (with Maureen Honey) of Double-Take: A Revisionist Harlem Renaissance Anthology. International News Latest World News Videos & Photos ... Get the latest international news and world events from Asia Europe the Middle East and more. See world news photos and videos at ABCNews.com GAYATRI - bhagavadgitausa.com Gayatri Devi: Credit: GangesIndia.com. Gyatr = Gya + Tr. Gya is derived from Ga (singing page 352 Monier Williams Sanskrit Dictionary); Day Poems : Walt Whitman: Song of Myself To link to this poem put the URL below into your page: a href="daypoems.net/poems/1900.html"Song of Myself by Walt Whitman/a Plain for Printing AXS - Official Tickets and Your Source for Live Entertainment The AXS Cookie Policy. This website like most others uses cookies in order to give you a great online experience. By continuing to use our website you accept to our ... The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura - Internet Sacred Text ... Sacred-Texts Buddhism Taoism Shinto The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura I. The Cup of Humanity. Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. Archives - Philly.com Archives and past articles from the Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com. BALTIC LANGUAGES & PROTO-BALTIC The Baltic & Uralic in ... The Western Baltic dialect that later gave rise to the Sudovian Dainavian Galindian Pomesanian and various Prussian languages is one of the dialects ... Connect with EarthLink the award-winning Internet service ... Save on EarthLink's award-winning Internet services for your home: dial-up DSL high-speed cable & more. Plus web hosting & software. Connect with us! Brahmin - People Groups of India Who are they? The Brahmin people are a prominent community spread across the whole of India. The Brahmin are the highest of the four Hindu castes made up of priests ... Gates of Vienna After being taken down twice by Blogger within a single week we got the message: Its Time To Go. Gates of Vienna has moved to a new address:
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