Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The Fiction of Gloria Naylor is one of the very first critical studies of this acclaimed writer. Including an insightful interview with Naylor and focusing on her first four novels, the book situates various acts of insurgency throughout her work within a larger framework of African American opposition to hegemonic authority. But what truly distinguishes this volume is its engagement with African American vernacular forms and twentieth-century political movements.In her provocative analysis, Maxine Lavon Montgomery argues that Naylor constantly attempts to reconfigure the home

Self-actualization (Psychology) in literature. --- Autonomy in literature. --- Home in literature. --- African Americans in literature. --- African American women in literature. --- Naylor, Gloria --- Criticism and interpretation.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Women and literature --- African American women in literature --- African Americans in literature --- American Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Afro-American women in literature --- History --- African American women in literature. --- African Americans in literature. --- Naylor, Gloria --- Criticism and interpretation.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

African American women --- National characteristics, American, in literature. --- African American women in literature. --- American fiction --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women, Negro --- Women --- Afro-American women in literature --- Employment --- In literature. --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- African American authors

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Using feminist and womanist theory, Alexander takes as her main point of analysis works that focus on the black female body as the physical and metaphorical site of migration, in the process successfully demonstrating that diaspora has a different meaning for women than men.

American literature --- Human body in literature. --- African American women in literature. --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Afro-American women in literature --- History and criticism. --- African American authors

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

In this revised introduction to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison’s novels, Jan Furman extends and updates her critical commentary. New chapters on four novels following the publication of Jazz in 1992 continue Furman’s explorations of Morrison’s themes and narrative strategies. In all Furman surveys ten works that include the trilogy novels, a short story, and a book of criticism to identify Morrison’s recurrent concern with the destructive tensions that define human experience: the clash of gender and authority, the individual and community, race and national identity, culture and authenticity, and the self and other. As Furman demonstrates, Morrison more often than not renders meaning for characters and readers through an unflinching inquiry, if not resolution, of these enduring conflicts. She is not interested in tidy solutions. Enlightened self-love, knowledge, and struggle, even without the promise of salvation, are the moral measure of Morrison’s characters, fiction, and literary imagination. Tracing Morrison’s developing art and her career as a public intellectual, Furman examines the novels in order of publication. She also decodes their collective narrative chronology, which begins in the late seventeenth century and ends in the late twentieth century, as Morrison delineates three hundred years of African American experience. In Furman’s view Morrison tells new and difficult stories of old, familiar histories such as the making of Colonial America and the racing of American society. In the final chapters Furman pays particular attention to form, noting Morrison’s continuing practice of the kind of “deep" novelistic structure that transcends plot and imparts much of a novel’s meaning. Furman demonstrates, through her helpful analyses, how engaging such innovations can be.

African Americans in literature. --- African American women in literature. --- Women and literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Afro-American women in literature --- History --- Morrison, Toni --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Wofford, Chloe Anthony --- Morrisonová, Toni --- מוריסון, טוני