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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.

African American women in literature --- Afro-Amerikaanse vrouwen in de literatuur --- Amitié interraciale dans la littérature --- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Requiem for a Nun --- Femme (Théologie chrétienne) dans la littérature --- Femmes afro-américaines dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la poésie --- Femmes dans le théâtre --- Interracial friendship in literature --- Interraciale vriendschap in de literatuur --- Race dans la littérature --- Race in literature --- Ras in de literatuur --- Vrouw (Christelijke theologie) in de literatuur --- Vrouwen in de literatuur --- Vrouwen in de poëzie --- Vrouwen in het toneel --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in literature --- Women in poetry --- Sociology of culture --- Fiction --- Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Literature --- Morrison, Toni --- Hellman, Lillian --- Lorde, Audre --- United States --- American literature --- Interracial friendship --- Friendship --- Race relations --- Afro-American women in literature --- History and criticism --- Cox, Elizabeth --- Gibbons, Kaye --- 20th century --- Criticism and interpretation --- Williams, Sherley Anne --- America-Literatures. --- Sociology. --- Literature-Philosophy. --- Culture-Study and teaching. --- United States-History. --- History, Modern. --- North American Literature. --- Gender Studies. --- Literary Theory. --- Cultural Theory. --- US History. --- Modern History. --- United States of America --- Race --- Relationships --- Women --- Whiteness --- Blackness --- Book

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This volume presents a collection of critical essays that center women's friendship in women's literary and artistic production. Analyzing cultural portrayals of women's friendships in fiction, letters, and film, these essays collectively suggest new models of literary interpretation that do not prioritize heterosexual romance. Instead, this book represents friendships as mature and meaningful relationships that contribute to identity formation and political coalition. Both the supportive and competitive aspects of friendships are shown to be crucial to women's identities as individuals, political citizens, and artists. Addressing the complexities of how 20th- and 21st-century cultural texts construe women's friendships as they navigate patriarchal institutions, this collection advances scholarship on friendship beyond men and masculine models. Kristi Branham is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at Western Kentucky University, USA. She has published articles in the Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, Journal of American Studies, Literature and Film Quarterly, and contributed to the edited collection Home Sweat Home: Perspectives on House Work and Modern Relationships. Kelly L. Reames is Associate Professor of English at Western Kentucky University, USA. She is the author of Women and Race in Contemporary U.S. Writing: From Faulkner to Morrison and Toni Morrison's Paradise: A Reader's Guide.

Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Fiction --- American literature --- Literature --- literatuur --- gender --- fantasie (verbeelding) --- anno 1900-1999 --- America