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Women and Race in Contemporary U.S. Writing : From Faulkner to Morrison / by K. Lynch Reames.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reames, Kelly Lynch.
- Series:
- American Literature Readings in the 21st Century, 2634-5803
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- America--Literatures.
- America.
- Sex.
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Culture.
- United States--History.
- United States.
- History, Modern.
- North American Literature.
- Gender Studies.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- US History.
- Modern History.
- Local Subjects:
- North American Literature.
- Gender Studies.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- US History.
- Modern History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (198 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2007.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 "Sisters in Sin": Discourse, Discipline, and Difference in Requiem for a Nun; 3 "The Image of You, True or False, Last[s] a Lifetime": Lillian Hellman's Memories of Black Women; 4 "The Very House of Difference": Audre Lorde's Autobiographies; 5 "Just This Side of Colored": Ellen Foster and Night Talk; 6 "Who Can You Friend With, Love With Like That?": Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose; 7 "A Girl from a Whole Other Race": Toni Morrison's "Recitatif," Beloved, and Paradise; Coda. Getting Past White Women's Fantasies: Living Out Loud; Notes
- Works CitedIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611361839
- 9781281361837
- 1281361836
- 9780230603356
- 0230603351
- OCLC:
- 314794091
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