Title Page
Contents
I. Introduction 6
II. The Womanist Text 36
2.1. "Patched Quilt" Text Construction 42
2.2. Nonlinear Text Construction 46
2.3. Repetitive Blues Music Text Construction 48
2.4. Epistolary Text Construction 54
2.5. Synchronic Text Construction 62
III. The Narrative Text 70
3.1. Historical Narrative 71
3.2. Narrative Voice 84
3.3. Narrative Point of View 95
IV. The Characteristics of Womanist Narrative Text 120
4.1. The Aesthetic Characteristics 120
4.2. The Art of Subversion 143
4.3. The Wholeness of Survival 159
V. Conclusion 189
Bibliography 194
Abstract 210