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Crossing Borders through Folklore: African American Women's Fiction and Art (Volume 1) by Alma Jean Billingslea-Brown is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Crossing Borders through Folklore: African American Women's Fiction and Art (Volume 1) about?
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,
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Alma Jean Billingslea-Brown
- Publisher
- University of Missouri Press
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780826260093
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Poetry, Literary Criticism
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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