Tracing the Motherland: Autobiography, Migration, and Matrilineality in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day
This paper situates Gloria Naylors 1988 novel, Mama Day, within the tradition of 19th century African American womens autobiography. I argue that the slave-narrative can be understood as black autobiography in that ex-slaves used their life story as a political tool in both critiquing slavery and r...
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VANDERBILT
2012
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| Online Access: | http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-06302012-152033/ |