After the Pain : Critical Essays on Gayl Jones

by Mills, Fiona; Mitchell, Keith

• ISBN13: 9780820478388
• ISBN10: 0820478385
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-01
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

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After the pain : an introduction	p. 1
Identity and conceptual limitation in Gayl Jones's The healing : from turtle to human being	p. 11
Textual transfigurations and female metamorphosis : reading Gayl Jones's The healing	p. 31
From mules to turtle and unicorn women : the gender-folk revolution and the legacy of the Obeah in Gayl Jones's The healing	p. 65
Telling the untold tale : Afro-Latino/a identifications in the work of Gayl Jones	p. 91
"Reads kinda like jazz in they rhythm" : Gayl Jones's recent jazz conversations	p. 117
Interruptions : tradition, borders, and narrative in Gayl Jones's Mosquito	p. 137
"Trouble in mind" : (re)visioning myth, sexuality and race in Gayl Jones's Corregidora	p. 155
Prison narratives, narrative prisons : incarcerated women reading Gayl Jones's Eva's man	p. 173
Unsilencing lesbianism in the early fiction of Gayl Jones	p. 203
Things deserving echoes : Gayl Jones's liberating poetry	p. 221
Resistance, reappropriation, and reconciliation : the blues and flying Africans in Gayl Jones's Song for Anninho	p. 241
Afterword : voicing Gayl Jones	p. 259
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