Women and Race in Contemporary U.S. Writing

From Faulkner to Morrison
2007. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-4039-7238-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 189 Seiten, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Reihe: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century

This study discovers how contemporary writers have imagined possible relationships between African American and white women that overcome the stereotypical patterns of racism, using novels and autobiographies and focusing on works by William Faulkner, Lillian Hellman, Audre Lorde, Kaye Gibbons, Elizabeth Cox, Sherley Anne Wiliams, and Toni Morrison

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reames, K Lynch

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 'Sisters in Sin': William Faulkners's Requiem for a Nun 'The Image of you, True or False, Last[s] a Lifetime': Lillian Hellman's Memories of Black Women 'The Very House of Difference': Audre Lorde's Autobiographies 'Just This Side of Colored': Ellen Foster and Night Talk 'Girl from a Whole Other Race': Toni Morrison's 'Recitatif,' Beloved, and Paradise Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

KELLY LYNCH REAMES is Assistant Professor, Western Kentucky University, USA.