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Edited by Nagueyalti Warren, Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of African American Studies, Emory University, this volume in the Critical Insights series presents a variety of new essays on the American writer. For readers who are studying Walker for the first time, a biographical sketch relates the details of her life and four essays survey the critical reception of Walker's work, explore its cultural and historical contexts, situate Walker among her contemporaries, and review key themes in her work. Readers seeking a deeper understanding of the writer can then move on to other essays that explore topics like Walker's symbolism, metaphysics, and aesthetics; her views on feminism (or, in her own words, womanism), faith and religion; her responses to the issues of her own day as well as American, and specifically Southern history, like politics, slavery, poverty, and sexism. Works discussed include long fiction such as Meridian, The Color Purple, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and The Temple of My Familiar; nonfiction from In Search of Our Mother's Gardens; as well as well selections of Walker's short stories and poetry.

Authors, American --- African American authors --- Walker, Alice,

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Femmes noires americaines --- Jacobs (harriet ann), 1813-1897 --- Walker (alice) --- Hurston, Zora Neale

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Fiction --- American literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- Intertextualiteit --- Intertextuality --- Intertextualité --- American fiction --- Intertextuality. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- 20th century --- Barth, John --- Criticism and interpretation --- James, Henry --- Stein, Gertrude --- Walker, Alice --- Dreiser, Theodore Herman Albert --- Mailer, Norman --- Acker, Kathy --- Walker, Alice, 1944 --- -Criticism and interpretation --- American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism. --- Barth, John (1930-....) --- Walker, Alice (1944-....) --- Médias et littérature --- Littérature américaine --- Roman américain --- États-Unis --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique

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In a book that compares Virginia Woolf's writing with that of the novelist, actress, and feminist activist Elizabeth Robins (1862-1952), Molly Hite explores the fascinating connections between Woolf's aversion to women's "pleading a cause" in fiction and her narrative technique of complicating, minimizing, or omitting tonal cues. Hite shows how A Room of One's Own, Mrs. Dalloway, and The Voyage Out borrow from and implicitly criticize Robins's work.Hite presents and develops the concept of narrative tone as a means to enrich and complicate our readings of Woolf's modernist novels. In Woolf's Ambiguities, she argues that the greatest formal innovation in Woolf's fiction is the muting, complicating, or effacing of textual pointers guiding how readers feel and make ethical judgments about characters and events. Much of Woolf's narrative prose, Hite proposes, thus refrains from endorsing a single position, not only adding value ambiguity to the cognitive ambiguity associated with modernist fiction generally, but explicitly rejecting the polemical intent of feminist novelists in the generation preceding her own. Hite also points out that Woolf reconsidered her rejection of polemical fiction later in her career. In the unfinished draft of her "essay-novel" The Pargiters, Woolf created a brilliant new narrative form allowing her to make unequivocal value judgments.

English literature --- Thematology --- anno 1900-1999 --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Narration (Rhétorique) --- Narrative writing --- Verhaal (Retoriek) --- English fiction --- Feminism and literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- History and criticism --- 20th century --- Rhys, Jean --- Technique --- Lessing, Doris May --- Walker, Alice --- Atwood, Margaret Eleanor --- Atwood, Margaret, --- Lessing, Doris, --- Walker, Alice, --- Technique. --- Williams, Ella Gwendolen Rees --- Rees Williams, Ella Gwendolen --- Literature: history & criticism