Crossing color : transcultural space and place in Rita Dove's poetry, fiction and drama / Therese Steffen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frey Steffen, Therese, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dove, Rita, 1952---Criticism and interpretation.

Dove, Rita.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press 2001

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Crossing Color represents the first monographic study of Rita Dove's writing. A major African American author, Dove won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 and was US Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995.

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations and Documentation; Bio-Critical Introduction, State of the Art, and Outlook: The Aim of Crossing Color; 1 Rita Dove's Macro-Poetics of Space; 2 Rita Dove's Micro-Poetics of Space; 3 Movements of a Marriage; Or, Looking Awry at U.S. History; 4 Transcultural Space, Place, and Movement in the Bildungs-and Künstlerroman: Through the Ivory Gate; 5 Myths' Remakes; 6 The Voyage Out: On the Bus with Rosa Parks; Conclusions; In Conversation with Rita Dove; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772362-4

1-280-53088-X

0-19-535071-5

1-4294-0185-0

OCLC:

466433240