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Trances, Dances and Vociferations: Agency and Resistance in Africana
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Trances, Dances and Vociferations: Agency and Resistance in Africana Women's Narratives Hardback - 2000

by Nada Elia

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Trances, Dances and Vociferations provides a compelling feminist analysis of gender politics in the works of four major Africana women writers: Toni Morrison, Michelle Cliff, Assia Djebar, and Paule Marshall. Nada Elia explores the way in which black women characters use conjuring, double entendre, and song to empower, liberate and determine their own female insurgency. She also explains how African and Afrodiasporic women have been forced to rewrite history and substitute a communal and individual wholeness for alienation and separation in many different settings, from Algeria to Oklahoma. Ranging over works including Marshall's Praisesong forthe Widow, Djebar's A Sister to Scheherazade, Cliff's NoTelephone to Heaven and Morrison's Jazz and Beloved, Elia offers essential and provocative insights into the works of some of our most influential Africana women authors today.

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When Algerian novelist Assia Djebar set out to write her autobiography, she was confronted with the realization that she could do it only in French, the language of her former oppressor.

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  • Title Trances, Dances and Vociferations: Agency and Resistance in Africana Women's Narratives
  • Author Nada Elia
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 184
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Publication date 2000-12-13
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780815338420 / 0815338422
  • Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.5 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.27 cm)
  • Reading level 1470
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Ethnic Orientation: African
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Women in literature, Women and literature - United States -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00061008
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.509

About the author

Nada Elia is Scholar-in-Residence and Visiting Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies at Brown University.

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