3Terry McMillan. Mama [ M ]. New York: Pocket Star Books, 1994: 39.
4Terry McMillan. Waiting to Exhale [ M ] . California: Signet, 2005.
5See Alice Walker. In Search of Our Mothers' Garden[M]// Search of Our Mothers' Garden Alice Walker[ M ]. Boston: Harvest Books, 2004.
6Bernard W. Bell,The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots and Modem Literary Branches (Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2007), p. 250.
7Toni Morrison : "Un- speakable Things Unspoken: The Afro - American Presence in A- merican Literature," in The Black Feminist Reader ( eds. ), Joy James and T. Dencal Sharpley -Whiting (Blackwell Publishers, 2000), pp. 24 - 56.
8Barbara Christian, "The Highs and the Lows of Black Feminist Criticism," in Robyn R. Warhol and Diane Price Hemdl ( eds. ), Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism (Rutgers University Press, 1997, Revisd Edition ), p. 53.
