Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women’s Novels

Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women’s Novels

by Courtney Thorsson

University of Virginia Press (June 2013 )240 pages

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Courtney Thorsson is an assistant professor, Department of English.

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Courtney Thorsson

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2013

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