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The winning manuscript of the fourth annual Hollis Summers Poetry Prize is also the exciting American debut by a poet who has already established himself as an important international poetic voice. Midland, the seventh collection by Kwame Dawes, draws deeply on the poet's travels and experiences in Africa, the Caribbean, England, and the American South. Marked equally by a lushness of imagery, an urgency of tone, and a muscular rhythm, Midland, in the words of the final judge, Eavan Boland, is "a powerful testament of the complexity, pain, and enrichment of inheritance...It is a compelling me

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Césaire, Aimé --- Condé, Maryse --- Glissant, Edouard --- Postcolonialism --- Postcolonialisme --- Postkolonialisme --- Caribbean literature (French) --- -Postcolonialism --- -Postcolonialism in literature --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- History and criticism --- Cesaire, Aime --- -Conde, Maryse --- -Glissant, Edouard --- -Condé, M. --- Césaire, A. --- Criticism and interpretation --- -Criticism and interpretation --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Césaire, Aimé --- Condé, Maryse --- Glissant, Édouard, --- Condé, M. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Glissant, Édouard --- Caribbean literature

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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

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Focusing on specific texts by Jamaica Kincaid, Maryse Condé, and Paule Marshall, this fascinating study explores the intricate trichotomous relationship between the mother (biological or surrogate), the motherlands Africa and the Caribbean, and the mothercountry represented by England, France, and/or North America. The mother-daughter relationships in the works discussed address the complex, conflicting notions of motherhood that exist within this trichotomy. Although mothering is usually socialized as a welcoming, nurturing notion, Alexander argues that alongside this nurturing notion there exists much conflict. Specifically, she argues that the mother-daughter relationship, plagued with ambivalence, is often further conflicted by colonialism or colonial intervention from the "other," the colonial mothercountry. Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women offers an overview of Caribbean women's writings from the 1990s, focusing on the personal relationships these three authors have had with their mothers and/or motherlands to highlight links, despite social, cultural, geographical, and political differences, among Afro-Caribbean women and their writings. Alexander traces acts of resistance, which facilitate the (re)writing/righting of the literary canon and the conception of a "newly created genre" and a "womanist" tradition through fictional narratives with autobiographical components. Exploring the complex and ambiguous mother-daughter relationship, she examines the connection between the mother and the mother's land. In addition, Alexander addresses the ways in which the absence of a mother can send an individual on a desperate quest for selfhood and a home space. This quest forces and forges the creation of an imagined homeland and the re-validation of "old ways and cultures" preserved by the mother. Creating such an imagined homeland enables the individual to acquire "wholeness," which permits a spiritual return to the motherland, Africa via the Caribbean. This spiritual return or homecoming, through the living and practicing of the old culture, makes possible the acceptance and celebration of the mother's land. Alexander concludes that the mothers created by these authors are the source of diasporic connections and continuities. Writing/righting black women's histories as Kincaid, Condé, and Marshall have done provides a clearing, a space, a mother's land, for black women. Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women will be of great interest to all teachers and students of women's studies, African American studies, Caribbean literature, and diasporic literatures.

Caribbean fiction (English) --- Women and literature --- American fiction --- African American women in literature. --- Mothers and daughters in literature. --- Motherhood in literature. --- Mothers in literature. --- Home in literature. --- Afro-American women in literature --- Literature --- Caribbean literature (English) --- English fiction --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- African American authors --- Marshall, Paule, --- Kincaid, Jamaica --- Condé, Maryse --- Condé, M. --- Richardson, Elaine Potter --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Marshall, Paule (1929-....) --- Kincaid, Jamaica (1949-....) --- Condé, Maryse (1937-....) --- Femmes et littérature --- Roman antillais de langue anglaise --- Mères --- Maternité --- Mères et filles --- Critique et interprétation --- Antilles --- 20e siècle --- Femmes écrivains --- Histoire et critique --- États-Unis --- Dans la littérature --- Thèmes, motifs --- Région caraïbe --- Conde, Maryse