Moorings & Metaphors: Figures of Culture and Gender in Black Women's Literature

by Karla F.C. Holloway

Book Overview

Moorings and Metaphors is one of the first studies to examine the ways that cultural tradition is reflected in the language and figures of black women's writing. In a discussion that includes the works of Gloria Naylor, Alice Walker, Ama Ata Aidoo, Ntozake Shange, Buchi Emecheta, Octavia Butler, Efua Sutherland, and Gayl Jones, and with a particular focus on Toni Morrison's Beloved and Flora Nwapa's Efuru , Holloway follows the narrative structures,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081351746X
• ISBN13: 9780813517469
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

amazing! finally a theory that works!

Everytime I read a new book by a black woman author, this book is still right about the ways they write. Even several years after its publication, I am amazed that Holloway's theory of ancestry and remembrance continue to accurately predict the interest and direction of black women's literature. This book is a stunning intellectual accomplishment. It will take a while to read, but hold onto it. This is a theory that works!