Women and Race in Contemporary U.S. Writing

From Faulkner to Morrison

K. Lynch Reames (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

189 Seiten

2007
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-4039-7238-5 (ISBN)

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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

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

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.6.2007
Reihe/Serie	American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
Reihe/Serie	American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
Zusatzinfo	X, 189 p.
Verlagsort	Gordonsville
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4039-7238-9 / 1403972389
ISBN-13	978-1-4039-7238-5 / 9781403972385
Zustand	Neuware