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Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition (Gender and American Culture)
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by Cheryl A. Wall
Sales Rank: 620495
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Cover Type: Paperback with 288 pages
Published by: The University of North Carolina Press January 26, 2005
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0807855863
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0807855867
Book Dimensions:
9 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 1 pounds
Book Description
In blues music, "worrying the line" is the technique of breaking up a phrase by changing pitch, adding a shout, or repeating words in order to emphasize, clarify, or subvert a moment in a song. Cheryl A. Wall applies this term to fiction and nonfiction writing by African American women in the twentieth century, demonstrating how these writers bring about similar changes in African American and American literary traditions.
Examining the works of Lucille Clifton, Gayl Jones, Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, and Alice Walker, Wall highlights ways in which these authors construct family genealogies, filling in the gaps with dreams, rituals, music, or images that forge a connection to family lost through slavery. For the black lady author, Wall contends, this method of revising and extending canonical forms provides the opportunity to comment on the literary past while also calling attention to the historical effects of Slavery that remain. For the reader, Wall shows, the images and words combine to create a new kind of text that extends meanings of the line, both as lineage and as literary tradition.
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Wall applies the blues term "worrying the line" to describe the ways African American women writers reconstruct family genealogies in their fiction and nonfiction work through dreams, rituals, music, or images. Writers discussed include Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton, Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor, and Gayl Jones.
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