TY - BOOK ID - 78072403 TI - Close Kin and Distant Relatives : The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women's Literature PY - 2014 SN - 0813935512 9780813935515 1306428653 9781306428651 9780813935492 0813935490 9780813935508 0813935504 PB - London : Baltimore, Md. : University of Virginia Press, Project MUSE, DB - UniCat KW - African Americans in literature. KW - African Americans KW - Politics and literature KW - Families in literature. KW - Women and literature KW - American fiction KW - Family in literature KW - African American intellectuals KW - Afro-Americans in literature KW - Negroes in literature KW - Intellectual life. KW - History KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism. KW - African American authors UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78072403 AB - At the core of these transgressive family systems, Morris reveals, is a connection to African diasporic cultural rites such as dance, storytelling, and music that help the fictional characters to establish familial connections. ER -