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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
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After decades of relegation to the margins of American literary history, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God has recently been rediscovered by American literary and cultural scholars who have begun to explore the novel's thematic, ideological, and aesthetic complexity. In the introduction to this volume Michael Awkward provides an overview of the critical reception of Hurston's novel, from the largely dismissive reviews accompanying the novel's publication in 1937, to factors which helped revive interest in Hurston in the 1960s, to its recent establishment as a central American novel. The other essays in the volume discuss Hurston's sophisticated use of black folklore, the autobiographical resonances in the novel, Hurston's definition of the relationship between black artists and the Afro-American masses, and the usefulness of feminist modes of inquiry. This collection offers fresh insight for approaching Hurston's compelling exploration of a black woman's extended search for self and community.
American literature --- Thematology --- Psychological study of literature --- Hurston, Zora Neale --- African American women in literature --- Afro-Amerikaanse vrouwen in de literatuur --- Femmes afro-américaines dans la littérature --- Noires américaines dans la littérature --- Hurston, Zora Neale. --- Afro-American women in literature --- African American women in literature. --- Noires américaines dans la littérature --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature
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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.
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Women and literature --- African American women in literature --- African Americans in literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Afro-American women in literature --- History --- Naylor, Gloria --- Criticism and interpretation.
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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
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Representing an international gathering of scholars, Fields Watered with Blood constitutes the first critical assessment of the full scope of Margaret Walker's literary career. As they discuss Walker's work, including the landmark poetry collection For My People and the novel Jubilee, the contributors reveal the complex interplay of concerns and themes in Walker's writing: folklore and prophecy, place and space, history and politics, gender and race. In addition, the contributors remark on how Walker's emphases on spirituality and on dignity in her daily life make themselves felt in her writin
Women and literature --- African Americans in literature. --- African American women in literature. --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Afro-American women in literature --- History --- Walker, Margaret, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Alexander, Margaret Abigail Walker,
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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.
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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
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