{"product_id":"worrying-the-line-black-women-writers-lineage-and-literary-tradition-9780807855867","title":"Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition","description":"For blues musicians, worrying the line is the technique of breaking up a phrase by changing pitch, adding a shout, or repeating words in order to emphasize, clarify, or subvert a moment in a song. Cheryl A. Wall applies this term to fiction and nonfiction writing by African American women in the twentieth century, demonstrating how these writers bring about similar changes in African American and American literary traditions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamining the works of Lucille Clifton, Gayl Jones, Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, and Alice Walker, Wall highlights ways in which these authors construct family genealogies, filling in the gaps with dreams, rituals, music, or images that forge a connection to family lost through slavery. For the black woman author, Wall contends, this method of revising and extending canonical forms provides the opportunity to comment on the literary past while also calling attention to the lingering historical effects of slavery. For the reader, Wall shows, the images and words combine to create a new kind of text that extends meanings of the line, both as lineage and as literary tradition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cheryl a. Wall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/28\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.44h x 6.28w x 0.77d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807855867\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Issues Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2005 pg. 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCheryl A. Wall is professor of English at Rutgers University and author of \u003ci\u003eWomen of the Harlem Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e. She has edited five books, including \u003ci\u003eChanging Our Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory, and Writing by Black Women\u003c\/i\u003e and, most recently, a critical casebook on Zora Neale Hurston's \u003ci\u003eTheir Eyes Were Watching God\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40161666596979,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_ceee4058-fba9-4fcb-aec7-87e9eb0f490f.jpg?v=1654955854","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/worrying-the-line-black-women-writers-lineage-and-literary-tradition-9780807855867","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}