"The changing same" : black women's literature, criticism, and theory / Deborah E. McDowell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDowell, Deborah E., 1951- author.

Contributor:

Indiana University. Press, publisher.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Larsen, Nella--Criticism and interpretation.

Larsen, Nella.

Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019--Criticism and interpretation.

Morrison, Toni.

Walker, Alice, 1944---Criticism and interpretation.

Walker, Alice.

Hurston, Zora Neale--Criticism and interpretation.

Hurston, Zora Neale.

Walker, Alice, 1944-.

Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019.

American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American fiction--African American authors.

American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

American fiction--Women authors.

Women and literature--United States--History.

Women and literature.

African American women--Intellectual life.

African American women.

African American women in literature.

African Americans in literature.

History.

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xviii, 222 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©1995.

Summary:

McDowell's vibrant scholarship combines close textual analysis with attention to broad social, political, and cultural contexts. In this volume, she also critiques her own earlier positions, reconfiguring and contributing to the evolution of a new black feminist criticism.

Contents:

Thinking about methods

New directions for black feminist criticism

Race of Saints: Four Girls at Cottage City

"Changing Same": generational connections and black women novelists

Iola Leroy and The Color Purple

Undercover: passing and other disguises

On face: the marks of identity in Jessie Fauset's Plum Bun or getting read in the Harlem Renaissance

"Nameless ... Shameful Impulse": sexuality in Nella Larsen"s Quicksand and Passing

Reader in the text

Boundaries: or distant relations and close kin

Sula

Reading family matters

Hesitating between tenses or allegories of history

Witnessing slavery after freedom

Dessa Rose

Transferences: black feminist thinking: the "practice" of "theory."

Notes:

" ©1995 by Deborah E. McDowell"--verso of title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0253336295

0253209269

OCLC:

30318895