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Article: Daughters of a people and culture
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- The Virginia Quarterly Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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CopyrightCopyright University of Virginia Autumn 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The Daughters Return: African-American and Caribbean Women's Fictions of History. By Caroline Rody. Oxford. $49.95
Caroline Rody's revisionary literary criticism offers new and persuasive ways to understand the "renaissance" of AfricanAmerican women writers and of Caribbean women writers during the past three decades. What has allowed U.S. writers Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Phyllis Alesia Perry, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Octavia Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Lucille Clifton-along with filmmaker Julie Dash-their enormous productivity? What allowed Caribbean writers Merle Hodge, Simone Schwarz-Bart, Lorna Goodison, Jamaica Kincaid, Jean Rhys, Michelle Cliff, Maryse Conde to emerge at the ...