Ancestral voices, healing narratives: female ghosts in contemporary US and Caribbean fiction

"This book examines four contemporary novels from the US and the Caribbean in which female ghosts recover memory and fill the gaps of official history. The author contends that these female ghosts resist and subvert official narratives, inspiring female creativity as an alternative to monologic...

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Auteur principal: Gibby, Kristina S. (Auteur)
Type de support: Imprimé Livre
Langue:Anglais
Service de livraison Subito: Commander maintenant.
Vérifier la disponibilité: HBZ Gateway
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publié: Lanham Boulder New York London Lexington Books [2024]
Dans:Année: 2024
Collection/Revue:Reading trauma and memory
Sujets non-standardisés:B Condé, Maryse Victoire, les saveurs et les mots
B Brodber, Erna Louisiana
B Cisneros, Sandra Caramelo
B Collective memory in literature
B Valdés, Zoé (1959-) Te di la vida entera
B Ghosts in literature
B Literary Criticism
B Women in literature

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