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This work offers an analysis of an emerging genre in African-American and Caribbean fiction: the novels of black women writers who have returned to their ancestral past. Novels such as Toni Morrison's ""Beloved"" and Jean Rhys' ""Wide Sargasso Sea"" are assessed.

African American women in literature. --- African American women --- American fiction --- Caribbean fiction (English) --- Daughters in literature. --- Literature and history --- Mothers and daughters in literature. --- Return in literature. --- Women and literature --- Women in literature. --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Literature --- Return motif in literature --- English fiction --- Caribbean literature (English) --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women, Negro --- Women --- Afro-American women in literature --- Intellectual life. --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors