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Moorings & Metaphors traces the influence of cultural tradition on the language, narrative structure and figurative metaphors of contemporary black women writers from the United States and West Africa. Drawing on writers such as Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Alice Walker, Ama Ata Aidoo, Ntozake Shange, Buchi Emecheta, Octavia Butler, Efua Sutherland and Gayl Jones, the book focuses on works including Morrison’s *Beloved* and Flora Nwapa’s *Efuru*. Holloway develops a critical framework that emphasizes the intertextuality of black‑women’s literature across continents, highlighting the roles of cultural memory, spiritual tradition, and narrative recursion in shaping expressive modes and metaphorical language.
First publish date: 1992
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction
Authors: Karla F. C. Holloway
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