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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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John Miles Foley offers an innovative and straightforward approach to the structural analysis of oral and oral-derived traditional texts. Professor Foley argues that to give the vast and complex body of oral "literature" its due, we must first come to terms with the endemic heterogeneity of traditional oral epics, with their individual histories, genres, and documents, as well as both the synchronic and diachronic aspects of their poetics.Until now, the emphasis in studies of oral traditional works has been placed on addressing the correspondences among traditions-shared structures of "formula," "theme," and "story-pattern." Traditional Oral Epic explores the incongruencies among traditions and focuses on the qualities specific to certain oral and oral-derived works. It is certain to inspire further research in this field.

Epic literature --- Oral tradition. --- NON-CLASSIFIABLE. --- History and criticism. --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Oral history --- 82-13 --- 82.091 --- 82.091 Vergelijkende literatuurstudie --- Vergelijkende literatuurstudie --- 82-13 Epiek --- Epiek --- ancient greek literature. --- beowulf. --- classic greek literature. --- comparative prosody. --- endemic heterogeneity. --- formula. --- genre. --- history. --- innovative. --- literary theory. --- medieval literature. --- narrative. --- odyssey. --- old english poetry. --- oral derived traditional texts. --- oral literature. --- oral poetics. --- oral traditional works. --- oral traditions. --- orality. --- return song. --- serbo croatian return song. --- story pattern. --- storytelling. --- thematic structure. --- theme. --- tradition oral epics. --- traditional phraseology. --- Return in literature. --- Beowulf,

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This groundbreaking volume of critical essays revolving around the concept of resurgence maps the modes of conservation, transformation, and invention of the literary, visual, and cultural expressions which Jane Urquhart's singular voice has brought about on the Canadian but also international scene. Taking resurgence as the informing principle of investigation, the volume as a whole focuses on the rewriting and reconstruction of the past, on the modalities of its resurfacing or of its erasure. It raises questions about the explicit or implicit ideological repercussions of such concealment and disclosure, such rupture and resilience. Through the prism of this concept, through surveys, close textual scrutiny and comparative analyses, the book explores Urquhart's discursive practices, the way they hinge on intertextuality or citation, at the same time as upon intratextuality or self-citation. It brings to the fore the extratextual and metatextual quality of her writing together with the transmediality, the transcoding or intersemioticity which characterize the interaction between literature and the visual arts in her fictional and poetic works. The volume engages with Urquhart's entire literary oeuvre, opening with a thoughtprovoking, previously unpublished address by Urquhart herself and concluding with a discussion with the author. Special emphasis has been given to A Map of Glass, with the third chapter entirely dedicated to its specific or comparative examination, but her collections of poetry and the other five novels have also garnered single or comparative critical attention from the present contributors. From The Whirlpool to A Map of Glass, the uncanny array of Urquhart's resurgent colours makes us see «through the power of the written word» that there is a genuine mystery in art and a real place for wonder. It is the resurgence of such innermost forces, in the creative and critical landsca

Cadre (Littérature) --- Cadre du récit littéraire --- Continuity in literature --- Continuité dans la littérature --- Continuïteit in de literatuur --- Espace et temps (Littérature) --- Herinnering in de literatuur --- Landscape in literature --- Landscapes in literature --- Landschap in de literatuur --- Landschappen in de literatuur --- Lieu (Philosophie) dans la littérature --- Memory in literature --- Mémoire dans la littérature --- Paysage dans la littérature --- Paysages dans la littérature --- Plaats (Filosofie) in de literatuur --- Place (Philosophy) in literature --- Retour dans la littérature --- Return in literature --- Return motif in literature --- Setting (Literature) --- Setting (Literatuur) --- Terugkeer in de literatuur --- Return in literature. --- Landscapes in literature. --- Place (Philosophy) in literature. --- Memory in literature. --- Continuity in literature. --- Urquhart, Jane --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 820 "19" URQUHART, JANE --- #KOHU:CANADIANA --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--URQUHART, JANE --- Place (Literature) --- Authorship --- Drama --- Fiction --- Literature --- Memory as a theme in literature --- Technique --- ארקהארט, ג׳יין --- Criticism and interpretation --- Urquhart, Jane, --- Urquhart, Mary Jane, --- Urquhart, Jane (1947-....) --- Retour (littérature) --- Paysage --- Lieu (philosophie) --- Mémoire --- Continu (philosophie) --- Critique et interprétation --- dans la littérature --- Retour (littérature) --- Mémoire --- Cadre du récit littéraire --- Critique et interprétation --- dans la littérature