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Mehla, Anjila Singh. "The Self in Society: Exploring Cultural Embeddedness in Gloria Naylor’s Fiction." IRA-International Journal of Management & Social Sciences (ISSN 2455-2267) 7, no. 2 (June 10, 2017): 329. http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jmss.v7.n2.p24.

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<div><p><em>A most significant development that has taken place on the global literary scene during the last few decades or so is the dramatic emergence of African-American voices as a distinct and dominant force. Along with Toni Morrison scores of African American Fiction writers, poets, playwrights, autobiographers, and essayists have mapped bold new territories; they have firmly entrenched themselves in the forefront of contemporary American Literature. This article retraces this exciting literary phenomenon in the context of the lives, works, and achievements of Gloria Naylor and her contemporaries. Naylor discovered feminism and African American Literature, which revitalized her and gave her new ways to think about and define herself as a black woman.</em></p></div>
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Ammons, Elizabeth, and Anna Maria Chupa. "Anne, the White Woman in Contemporary African-American Fiction: Archetypes, Stereotypes, and Characterizations." MELUS 17, no. 4 (1991): 139. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/467274.

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Morozova, Irina V. "“A Woman Called Moses”: Literary Interpretations of Harriet Tubman’s Life." Literature of the Americas, no. 16 (2024): 169–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2024-16-169-189.

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The article is devoted to the formation of Harriet Tubman's image in the US literature. Two books belonging to the spread of Afrocentrism and the second wave of feminism — A. Petrie's non-fiction novel A Girl Called Moses: The Story of Harriet Tubman and M. Heidish's novel A Woman Called Moses — are chosen as the material for analysis. The article analyzes the main qualitative characteristics identified as early as in S. Bradford's book Harriet, Moses of Her People that form the discourse of race and gender in the mentioned narratives about Tubman, and identifies the main transformations of these characteristics. Thus, the work of African-American author A. Petrie reflects to a greater extent the sentiments of all her fellow women in the 1950s-60s Black Civil Rights Movement in the United States: while remaining within the generally accepted gender framework of feminine virtues, at the same time, the black woman was stepping out of her allotted racial limits. Furthermore, she shows that slavery is a cultural trauma that still defines how the African American community sees itself and its place in the society and how slavery is remembered as a means of self-identification within the African American community. Created by the white writer M. Heidish in the mid-1970s, during the rise of the second wave of the feminist movement, the novel reflects the very sentiments that characterized this movement and shows the view of a sympathetic Other on the issue of race. Thus, the article establishes the fact that Harriet Tubman plays a very important role in the African-American and women's discourse in the United States as an image that is given the necessary functions and qualities for its time based on the socio-cultural context contemporary to the interpreter.
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Selay Marius, KOUASSI. "‘‘They could defecate over a whole people […] and defecate some more by tearing up the land”: Ecological (Un) consciousness and Resistance in Toni Morrison’s Selected Novels." International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Invention 5, no. 12 (December 30, 2018): 5207–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.18535/ijsshi/v5i12.19.

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This paper aims to deconstruct Toni Morrison’s selected novels through the lenses of ecocriticism. It looks at her work from an ecocritical angle. Sula has traditionally been read as a story about female friendship ;Song of Solomon has been critically acclaimed for its vivid capture of African American cultural heritage ; Tar Baby is regarded as a masterpiece because of its high folkloric resonance ; Beloved is perceived as a survey of the horrors of slavery ; Paradise is regarded as the narrative of contemporary communities confronted with great social changes, while A Mercy is considered to be a story of black women slaves’ struggles to gain freedom in America in the 1600s. Historically, critics have attempted to perceive Morrison’s fiction from the socio-historical lens that has little to do with Nature. However, Nature serves as a background to Morrison's work. It not only serves as imagery but more of a living being that reacts to human exploitation. Morrison's selected novels highlight diverse aspects of this human versus nature relationship that deserves an in-depth analysis. In fact, these novels provide ample evidence that the author sees ecosensitivity and ecological consciousness as possible ways to curb environmental degradation. This paper posits the nonhuman world encoded in Morrison’s novels. It maintains that Morrison’s fiction could raise awareness about ecological wisdom which is key to understanding and solving the current environmental challenges.
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Anatol, Giselle Liza. "Getting to the Root of US Healthcare Injustices through Morrison’s Root Workers." MELUS 46, no. 4 (December 1, 2021): 186–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlab053.

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Abstract Although a number of scholars have tackled the figure of the Black folk-healer in Toni Morrison’s novels, the character deserves greater attention in the present moment for the insights she provides into two contemporary catastrophes: the coronavirus pandemic and the structural racism that precipitates rampant violence against brown-skinned people in the United States. Beginning with M’Dear, the elderly woman who is brought in to treat Cholly’s Aunt Jimmy in The Bluest Eye (1970), I survey descriptions of several root workers, hoodoo practitioners, and midwives in Morrison’s fiction, including Ajax’s mother in Sula (1973) and Milkman’s aunt Pilate in Song of Solomon (1977). Morrison’s portraits of these women and their communities capture the endurance of African folk customs, the undervalued knowledge of aged members of society, and a sense of Black women’s strength beyond that of the physical, laboring, or hypersexual body. The fictional experiences of Morrison’s healers also alert readers to the very real injustices that have historically impeded the successes of African Americans—and continue to hamper them, as has been exposed during the COVID-19 crisis and public outrages over police brutality. These injustices include inequities in lifelong earning potential, education, housing, and access to healthcare. Paying closer attention to the Nobel Laureate’s root-working women makes her novels more than simply “transformative” and “empowering” for individual readers; analyzing these figures allows one to unearth important critiques of medical bias and other forms of discrimination against marginalized members of society—disparities that must be dismantled in the push for social change.
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Gillespie, Michael Boyce. "Death Grips." Film Quarterly 71, no. 2 (2017): 53–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fq.2017.71.2.53.

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Black death in contemporary cinema requires understanding how film blackness always means provoking new entangled measures of the aesthetic, political, social, and cultural capacities of black visual and expressive culture. As a result, the critical consequence of film blackness always entails issues of affect, narrativity, visual historiography, and genre/modalities. Black death, then, signifies both the violent injustice of African American deaths and the rendering of death in cinema. Three short films by black women filmmakers represent an ever-growing archive of recent works that merit critical attention as they advance cinematic practices that point to new political philosophies and circuits of knowledge related to black death and film form. Taken together as a “cinema in the wake,” the three—Leila Weefur's Dead Nigga BLVD (2015), Frances Bodomo's Everybody Dies! (2016), and A. Sayeeda Clarke's White (2011)—pose a range of formal propositions about black death that include animation, the racial grotesque, and speculative fiction. With distinct and compelling conceptions of black death, these three short films are deeply located in their contemporary American moment. Thinking with these films involves thinking through performing objects, the racial grotesque, and the futurity of social deletion. Together these films exquisitely suspend, disrupt, and disturb constituting distinct visual historiographies and strategies. As cinema in the wake, these films are stirred by incitements of film form, materiality, temporality, and conceptions of black being. But, more importantly, to think through black death across the formal experimentation and critical capacities of this work is to contend with an enduring urgency, the precarity of black life.
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Chandler, Karen. "Saints Sinners Survivors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature, and: The Freedom to Remember: Narrative, Slavery, and Gender in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction (review)." NWSA Journal 16, no. 2 (2004): 225–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nwsa.2004.0048.

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Lim, Shirley Geok-Lin. "Critical Perspectives on Native American Fiction. Richard F. FleckAll My Relatives: Community in Contemporary Ethnic American Literatures. Bonnie TuSmithMules and Dragons: Popular Cultural Images in the Selected Writings of African-American and Chinese-American Women Writers. Mary E. Young." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 21, no. 2 (January 1996): 494–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/495083.

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Chandler, Karen. "BOOK REVIEW: Trudier Harris. SAINTS SINNERS SURVIVORS: STRONG BLACK WOMEN IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE. and Angelyn Mitchell. THE FREEDOM TO REMEMBER: NARRATIVE, SLAVERY, AND GENDER IN CONTEMPORARY BLACK WOMEN'S FICTION." NWSA Journal 16, no. 2 (July 2004): 225–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/nws.2004.16.2.225.

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Mafe, Diana Adesola. "Phoenix Rising: The Book of Phoenix and Black Feminist Resistance." MELUS 46, no. 2 (June 1, 2021): 43–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlab021.

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Abstract This essay focuses on Nnedi Okorafor’s 2015 novel The Book of Phoenix and reads the black female protagonist and narrator, Phoenix Okore, as a powerful metaphor for a radical twenty-first-century black feminist politics and a signifier of the contemporary social movement Say Her Name. Phoenix is the product of experimentation, “a slurry of African DNA and cells” (146) who is birthed by an African American surrogate mother and then raised in a laboratory prison. She herself identifies as “SpeciMen, Beacon, Slave, Rogue, Fugitive, Rebel, Saeed’s Love, Mmuo’s Sister, Villain” (224). Okorafor thus imagines a multilayered metaphor that speaks to the complexities of black female identities in the new millennium. True to her name, Phoenix is repeatedly reborn from her own ashes after dying at the hands of a white supremacist organization called the Big Eye. Hers is, by turns, neo-slave narrative, cautionary tale, and social critique. As a revolutionary black woman who is never meant to be a simplistic paragon, Phoenix ultimately uses her superhuman abilities and her rage to change the world, albeit in a cataclysmic way. Although the novel predates our current historical moment—namely, international protests, calls for police reform in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, and the dismantling of racist iconography—it serves as an uncanny reflection, if not a harbinger, of this moment. Furthermore, it models the ways in which fiction channels our most desperate desires, especially the need for justice.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "FICTION / African American / Contemporary Women"

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Kim, Junyon. "Re-imagining diaspora, reclaiming home in contemporary African-American fiction /." view abstract or download file of text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3147823.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 223-239). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Ivey, Adriane Louise. "Rewriting Christianity : African American women writers and the Bible /." view abstract or download file of text, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9987234.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000.
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Graham-Bertolini, Alison. "Home of the Brave: Vigilante Women in Contemporary American Fiction." LSU, 2009. http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04142009-191748/.

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Vigilante literature tells the stories of individuals who rectify injustice by taking matters into their own hands. Examples of this plot can be found in American literature dating from colonial times, when settlers made an effort to preserve their moral code without the aid of an established justice system. The popularity of this theme finds further currency in tales of the frontier and the Wild West, and more recently, Hollywood has capitalized on its popularity by drawing from the myth of American pioneer culture and the theme of the lone avenger. This project identifies an analogous theme in contemporary fiction by women writers, who in the twentieth century began frequently employing female avatars of vigilante justice to challenge (in an illegal or extralegal fashion) those who violate the economic, social, or political rights of women. This dissertation analyzes a collection of novels and short stories by contemporary American women who employ the avatar of the vigilante woman, and demonstrates how female avengers, warriors, bandits, and killers extend and amend the vigilante tradition in the United States.
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Rountree, Wendy Alexia. "THE CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN-AMERICAN FEMALE BILDUNGSROMAN." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin997212820.

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Hebbar, Reshmi J. "Modeling minority women : heroines in African and Asian American fiction /." New York : Routledge, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb400508717.

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Mitchell, Shamika Ann. "The Multicultural Megalopolis: African-American Subjectivity and Identity in Contemporary Harlem Fiction." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/167490.

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The central aim of this study is to explore what I term urban ethnic subjectivity, that is, the subjectivity of ethnic urbanites. Of all the ethnic groups in the United States, the majority of African Americans had their origins in the rural countryside, but they later migrated to cities. Although urban living had its advantages, it was soon realized that it did not resolve the matters of institutional racism, discrimination and poverty. As a result, the subjectivity of urban African Americans is uniquely influenced by their cosmopolitan identities. New York City's ethnic community of Harlem continues to function as the geographic center of African-American urban culture. This study examines how six post-World War II novels --Sapphire's PUSH, Julian Mayfield's The Hit, Brian Keith Jackson's The Queen of Harlem, Charles Wright's The Wig, Toni Morrison's Jazz and Louise Meriwether's Daddy Was a Number Runner-- address the issues of race, identity, individuality and community within Harlem and the megalopolis of New York City. Further, this study investigates concepts of urbanism, blackness, ethnicity and subjectivity as they relate to the characters' identities and self-perceptions. This study is original in its attempt to ascertain the connections between megalopolitan urbanism, ethnicity, subjectivity and African-American fiction.
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Bartlow, Dianne. "On the relationship between altruism and African-American women in contemporary popular music /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9992377.

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Henninger, Katherine. "Ordering the façade : photography and the politics of representation in contemporary Southern women's fiction /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Munoz, Cabrera Patricia. "Journeying: narratives of female empowerment in Gayl Jones's and Toni Morrison's ficton." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210259.

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This dissertation discusses Gayl Jones’s and Toni Morrison’s characterisation of black women’s journeying towards empowered subjectivity and agency.

Through comparative analysis of eight fictional works, I explore the writers’ idea of female freedom and emancipation, the structures of power affecting the transition from oppressed towards liberated subject positions, and the literary techniques through which the authors facilitate these seminal trajectories.

My research addresses a corpus comprised of three novels and one book-long poem by Gayl Jones, as well as four novels by Toni Morrison. These two writers emerge in the US literary scene during the 1970s, one of the decades of the second black women’s renaissance (1970s, 1980s). This period witnessed unprecedented developments in US black literature and feminist theorising. In the domain of African American letters, it witnessed the emergence of a host of black women writers such as Gayl Jones and Toni Morrison. This period also marks a turning point in the reconfiguration of African American literature, as several unknown or misplaced literary works by pioneering black women writers were discovered, shifting the chronology of African American literature.

Moreover, the second black women's renaissance marks a paradigmatic development in black feminist theorising on womanhood and subjectivity. Many black feminist scholars and activists challenged what they perceived to be the homogenising female subject conceptualised by US white middle-class feminism and the androcentricity of the subject proclaimed by the Black Aesthetic Movement. They claimed that, in focusing solely on gender and patriarchal oppression, white feminism had overlooked the salience of the race/class nexus, while focus by the Black Aesthetic Movement on racism had overlooked the salience of gender and heterosexual discrimination.

In this dissertation, I discuss the works of Gayl Jones and Toni Morrison in the context of seminal debates on the nature of the female subject and the racial and gender politics affecting the construction of empowered subjectivities in black women's fiction.

Through the metaphor of journeying towards female empowerment, I show how Gayl Jones and Toni Morrison engage in imaginative returns to the past in an attempt to relocate black women as literary subjects of primary importance. I also show how, in the works selected for discussion, a complex idea of modern female subjectivities emerges from the writers' re-examination of the oppressive material and psychological circumstances under which pioneering black women lived, the common practice of sexual exploitation with which they had to contend, and the struggle to assert the dignity of their womanhood beyond the parameters of the white-defined “ideological discourse of true womanhood” (Carby, 1987: 25).


Doctorat en philosophie et lettres, Orientation langue et littérature
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Chapi, Aicha. "Towards a reading of Toni Morrison's fiction : African-American history, the arts and contemporary theory /." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19671441.

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Books on the topic "FICTION / African American / Contemporary Women"

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L, Middleton David, ed. Toni Morrison's fiction: Contemporary criticism. New York, USA: Garland Pub., 2000.

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L, Middleton David, ed. Toni Morrison's fiction: Contemporary criticism. New York: Garland Pub., 1997.

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Chupa, Anna Maria. Anne, the white woman in contemporary African-American fiction: Archetypes stereotypes, and characterizations. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.

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Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress), ed. Opposites attract. New York, NY: BET Publications, 1999.

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Morrison, Mary B. Nothing has ever felt like this. New York: Dafina Books, 2005.

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Byrd, Adrianne. I promise. New York: BET Publications, 1999.

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Schuster, Melanie. Trust in me. New York: Kimani Press, 2008.

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Rainey, Doreen. Can't deny love. Washington D.C: Arabesque, 2003.

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Brown, Tracy. White lines II: Sunny : a white lines novel. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2012.

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Sneed, Tamara. A royal vow. Washington D.C: Arabesque, 2001.

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Graham-Bertolini, Alison. "Women Warriors and Women with Weapons." In Vigilante Women in Contemporary American Fiction, 55–91. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230339309_3.

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Schneider, Ana-Karina. "Contemporary American Women Writers in Romania." In Contemporary American Fiction in the European Classroom, 79–95. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94166-6_6.

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Lee, A. Robert. "The South in Contemporary African-American Fiction." In A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South, 552–70. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470756935.ch32.

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Nunes, Ana. "Introduction." In African American Women Writers’ Historical Fiction, 1–7. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230118850_1.

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Nunes, Ana. "Contexts." In African American Women Writers’ Historical Fiction, 9–23. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230118850_2.

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Nunes, Ana. "Setting the Record Straight." In African American Women Writers’ Historical Fiction, 25–61. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230118850_3.

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Nunes, Ana. "History as Birthmark." In African American Women Writers’ Historical Fiction, 63–96. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230118850_4.

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Nunes, Ana. "“The Undocumentable Inside of History”." In African American Women Writers’ Historical Fiction, 97–132. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230118850_5.

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Nunes, Ana. "“Her Best Thing, Her Beautiful, Magical Best Thing”." In African American Women Writers’ Historical Fiction, 133–70. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230118850_6.

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Nunes, Ana. "Conclusion." In African American Women Writers’ Historical Fiction, 171–78. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230118850_7.

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