Books by Alexis Brooks de Vita

When Eva Dennison learns that she has inherited the fallow sharecropping plantation in Mississippi that her parents fled to make a new life in L.A., she is eager to escape the big city and explore her historical roots. Eva abandons her dissertation about ancestral memory in African American literature and myths.

This title seeks to analyze African / Diaspora women's literary voices and images. Dr Brooks De Vita aims to develop culturally relevant modes of literary analysis of African / Diaspora literatures by identifying traditional figures of myth, religion, legend and history.