Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary TraditionIn 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 wr |
Contents
I Looked Down the Line | 1 |
Introduction | 5 |
Reconstructing Lineage Revising Tradition in Song of Solomon and Zami | 25 |
On the Line to Dahomey Charting Generations | 59 |
Recollections of Kin Beloved and The Black Book | 84 |
Trouble in Mind Blues and History in Corregidora | 116 |
Writing beyond the Blues The Color Purple | 140 |
Extending the Line From Sula to Mama Day | 162 |
Bare Bones and Silken Threads Lineage and Literary Tradition in Praisesong for the Widow | 181 |
In Search of Our Mothers Gardens and Our Fathers Real Estates Alice Walker Essayist | 209 |
Moving On Down the Line | 235 |
notes | 247 |
| 279 | |
| 295 | |
Other editions - View all
Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition Cheryl A. Wall No preview available - 2005 |
Common terms and phrases
aesthetics African American Alice Walker ancestors Audre Lorde Aunt Cuney Avey Avey's Baby Suggs Baldwin beauty becomes Beloved Bessie Bessie Smith Black Book Black Women Writers blues Bois's Carriacou Celie characters child Color Purple Corregidora critics cultural Da-duh Dahomey dance daughter dream edited essay father female fiction film Gayl Gayl Jones gender Gloria Naylor Ibo Landing images Jones legacy literary tradition Literature lives Lorde's Lucille Clifton Ma Rainey Mama Day memory metaphors Milkman mother myth narrative narrator Naylor Negro novel past Paul photograph poem poet poetry political Praisesong protagonist readers recollection remembers Reprint revises ring shout ritual Sethe Sethe's sexual Shug Shug's singer singing slave slavery Song of Solomon spiritual story Subsequent references Sula tell texts tion Toni Morrison University Press Ursa Ursa's voice Willow Springs woman words Worrying the Line Wright writing York Zami Zora Neale Hurston