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Crossing borders through folklore : African American women's fiction and art / Alma Jean Billingslea-Brown.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, �1999.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 146 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0826260098
  • 9780826260093
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Crossing borders through folklore.DDC classification:
  • 813.009/9287 21
LOC classification:
  • PS374.N4 B55 1999eb
Other classification:
  • 18.06
Online resources:
Contents:
Folklore and the borderland of the sixties -- Folk magic, women, and identity -- Reclaiming and re-creating Africa: folklore and the "return to the source" -- Folklore as performance and communion.
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  • digitized 2010 committed to preserve
Summary: Examining works by Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Faith Ringgold, and Betye Saar, this innovative book frames black women's aesthetic sensibilities across art forms. Investigating the relationship between vernacular folk culture and formal expression, this study establishes how each of the four artists engaged the identity issues of the 1960s and used folklore as a strategy for crossing borders in the works they created during the following two decades. Because of its interdisciplinary approach, this study will appeal to students and scholars in many fields, including African American literature, art history, women's studies, diaspora studies, and cultural studies.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-142) and index.

Examining works by Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Faith Ringgold, and Betye Saar, this innovative book frames black women's aesthetic sensibilities across art forms. Investigating the relationship between vernacular folk culture and formal expression, this study establishes how each of the four artists engaged the identity issues of the 1960s and used folklore as a strategy for crossing borders in the works they created during the following two decades. Because of its interdisciplinary approach, this study will appeal to students and scholars in many fields, including African American literature, art history, women's studies, diaspora studies, and cultural studies.

Folklore and the borderland of the sixties -- Folk magic, women, and identity -- Reclaiming and re-creating Africa: folklore and the "return to the source" -- Folklore as performance and communion.

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