Afro-American
Literature/edited by R.K. Dhawan. New Delhi, Prestige, 2001, 208 p., $28.
ISBN:
81-7551-110-9.Afro-American
Literature/edited by R.K. Dhawan. New Delhi, Prestige, 2001, 208 p., $28.
ISBN:
81-7551-110-9.
Contents : An angle of seeing gender politics : Margaret Atwood’s the handmaid’s tale, Alice Walker’s the color purple, Anita Desai’s voices in the city and Bapsi sidhwa’s and American Brat/Madhumalati Adhikari. 2. Gender oppression in Gloria naylor’s women of Brewster place and linden hills/Neena Arora. 3. Alice Walker’s decolonization of traditional love In the color purple/Seodial Deena. 4. Zora neale hurston : literary matriarch/Asha S. Kanwar. 5. Invisible women in Ralph ellison’s invisible man/Nita N. Kumar. 6. Alex Haley’s roots : a transformation of history/Ayesha irfan. 7. Black magic : the works of Toni Morrison/Asha S. Kanwar. 8. The concept of self : the black community in Tony Morrison’s the bluest eye/Narain Prasad Shukla. 9. Quest for self in Toni Morrison’s sula/Monika Gupta. 10. The metaphor of flying : adventure and mystery in Tonni Morrison’s song of Solomon/Narain Prasad Shukla. 11. Deferrals of social structures : an intertextual reading of Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby/S. Kannamal. 12. "This is where I am": topos as trophe for self and society in Toni Morrison’s beloved/Urbashi Barat. 13. Gender solidarity through women bonding : Toni Morrison’s Jazz/K. Sumana. 14. Black feminist aesthetics : Alice childress’s trouble in mind/B. Rajeswari. 15. Self-interrogation and re-definition : Marsha norman’s ‘night, mother/Savita Goel. 16. Ntozake shange’s a photograph : lovers in motion ; dimensions of the African-American feminist theatre/Y.S. Sharadha. 17. Lorraine Hansberry’s a raisin in the sun : quest for African identity and universality/Y.S. Sharadha.