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Activism and the American novel : religion and resistance in fiction by women of color / Channette Romero.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Romero, Channette.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--Minority authors--History and criticism.
- Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Women and literature.
- Politics and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Politics and literature.
- Religion in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (227 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Critical of a widespread disengagement from civic participation and of the contemporary novel's disconnection from politics, this fiction attempts to transform the novel and the practice of reading into a means of political engagement and an inspiration for social change.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Searching for relations
- Reconstituting the public sphere
- Spiritual temporalities and histories: Cristina Garcia and Leanne Howe
- Rewriting America's exceptionalism: Toni Morrison
- Post-civil rights community: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, and Ana Castillo
- Indigenous sovereignties: Leslie Marmon Silko and Louise Erdrich
- Conclusion: Toward a literary activism.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781283575980
- 1283575981
- 9780813933306
- 0813933307
- OCLC:
- 810416098
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