Re-Configuring Paternal Legacies Through Ritualistic Art: Daughters and Fathers in Contemporary Fiction by Women of African Descent
RE-CONFIGURING PATERNAL LEGACIES THROUGH RITUALISTIC ART: DAUGHTERS AND FATHERS IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION BY WOMEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA BY BARBARA GINA PIERRE-LOUIS IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY FERNANDO ARENAS, TIMOTHY A. BRENNAN JUNE 2012 © Barbara Gina Pierre-Louis 2012 i Acknowledgements I am eternally grateful to the community of people that made it possible for me to complete this project. I would like to especially thank my Beau, my parents, Flis and Malcolm, Vav, T-Ger, Ze, UncaGee, Dodi, Coyou, Ken, Manmi Françoise, Bosny and Marjo, Dina and Naomie, UuncaKarl, Nine, Neinei and other extended family members throughout the dyaspora. Mwen‘pab ka bliye—I will always remember the kindness of Solange St. Jean, Max Homidas, Ruth Anne Olson, Carmelle and Mardochard Louis, Robin Trana, Gaylene Seibold, Amy Lee-Jones, Jeannie Shinozuka, Heather and Wes Lauer, Julie Smalley and John MacHalec, Beth and John Megas, Emmanuel Jean, Leah and Will Nicholson, Kathy and Wayne Bogen, Datra and Dev Oliver, Jolanna Norton, Nathalie Gaillot, Resty Namata, Kristin Beamish-Brown, Megan Corbin, Pamela Flash, Mitch Ogden, Beth Weixel, Rebecca Ulland, Malcolm McNee, Josh Gardner, Jermaine Singleton, Vanessa Abanu, Rose Brewer, Walter Jacobs, John Wright, Yuichiro Onishi, Ilene D. Alexander, April Knutson, Adrienne Todd, Monica Kenton, Frances Matos- Schultz, Susan McMillen Villar, Thomas McCallum, Emilce Lopez, Ulrika Speckman, Cecily Brown, Meridith Cody, Leslie Morris, Zenzele Isoke, Fernando Arenas, Timothy A. Brennan, Ana Paula Ferreira, Njeri R. Githire, and Joanna O’Connell.
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