Mythatypes: Signatures and Signs of African/Diaspora and Black Goddesses

by Alexis Brooks De Vita

Dr. Alexis Brooks De Vita takes up the challenge to develop culturally relevant modes of literary analysis of African/Diaspora literatures by identifying traditional African and Diaspora figures of myth, religion, legend, and history that interact with African and Diaspora literary heroines and their authors. Following upon Karla Holloway's arguments in Moorings and Metaphors that African American and West African women share strong traits...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313310688
• ISBN13: 9780313310683
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"