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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Erna Brodber"”.
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Inscrutable Islands: Narrative Difficulty and the Rhetoric of Creolization in Twentieth-Century Caribbean Novels
… However, in the novels of Patrick Chamoiseau, Erna Brodber, Jean Rhys, Maryse Condé, Édouard Glissant, and Wilson Harris, difficult narrative forms can instead entrench social divisions and hierarchies.</p>
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Framing Standard and Dialect in Black Women's Novels
… With double exposure in Louisiana (1994), Erna Brodber uses Hurston as the inspiration for her fictional main character to ground her theories in the Black diaspora. Toni Morrison invests in Black women's discursive erasure as the material of reorientation, presenting a photonegative in …
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Contextualizing narrative theory: reading the politics of formal innovation in contemporary women's fiction
… and the limitations of others. It opens up alternative critical possibilities by drawing upon insights within contemporary critical theory, from poststructuralist philosophy to transcultural feminism to sociolinguistics. Above all, my interventions proceed from close readings of innovative …
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The virgin's daughters: Catholic traditions and the post-colonial south in contemporary women's writing
… Sisterhood, Brenda Marie Osbey’s All Saints, and Erna Brodber’s Louisiana. The authors enact spiritual and cultural reclamation through the written expression of key components of postcolonial reconstruction of history, including ancestral memory, hybridization of cultural narratives, and …