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Author Kafka, Phillipa, 1933-

Title The great white way : African American women writers and American success mythologies / Phillipa Kafka.

Imprint New York : Garland Pub., 1993.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  810.99287 K199g    ---  Available
Description vii, 223 p. ; 22 cm.
Series Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 1669
Critical studies in Black life and culture ; vol. 28
Critical studies on Black life and culture ; v. 28.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Phillis Wheatley, Benjamin Franklin, and European American male success mythology -- Wheatley and her literary daughters : from tragedies to triumphs -- Harriet Jacobs's use of self-image to represent collective self -- "Dis ain't no business proposition. Dis is uh love game" : Zora Neale Hurston's disjunctive conjunctions and European American success myths in Their eyes were watching God -- Celie is short for Cinderella : Alice Walker and American success myths.
Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Women and literature
African American women in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Success in literature.
Myth in literature.
ISBN 0815311605 (acid-free paper)

 
    
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