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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.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
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)