James McBride / editor, Mildred R. Mickle, Penn State Greater Allegheny, Pennsylvania.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mickle, Mildred R., editor.

Series:

Critical insights.

Critical Insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

McBride, James, 1957---Criticism and interpretation.

McBride, James.

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

American literature.

Historical fiction, American--History and criticism.

Historical fiction, American.

African Americans in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 282 pages).

Edition:

[First edition].

Other Title:

Critical Insights

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Incorporated ; Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This volume provides critical analysis and close readings of the varied works of James McBride, including his memoir The Color of Water and his National Book Award winning novel The Good Lord Bird, among other works. The themes covered include: historical ties to World War II; the Civil War; his family relationships and unique upbringing.

Contents:

About this volume / Mildred R. Mickle

Biographical sketch : James McBride / Mildred R. Mickle

On James McBride / Mildred R. Mickle

James McBride's The Good Lord Bird : a pluralist approach / Robert C. Evans

The critique of history in James McBride's works / Mildred R. Mickle

On a forgotten front : James McBride's Miracle at St. Anna and the fiction of the Italian Campaign of World War II / Martin Kich

Reading James McBride : a literature review of secondary sources about James McBride and his writings / Martin Kich

James McBride's The Color of Water : some reasons for its popularity / Robert C. Evans

The color of still waters : McBride, Obama, and the fierce urgency of the new now / Tahirah Duncan Walker

Superstition's role in shaping identity throughout history and the film adaptation of James McBride's Miracle at St. Anna / Brianna Toth

Learning the code : a deconstruction of archetypes of oppression, transformation, and freedom in James McBride's Song Yet Sung / Abandon Shuman

James McBride on The Good Lord Bird : evidence from interviews / Robert C. Evans

James McBride's The Good Lord Bird : assessments by early reviewers / Kelley Jeans

James McBride's The Good Lord Bird and the peculiar legacies of Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner / Justin Mellette

Unlikely witnesses to convulsive and consternating history : the narrators of James McBride's The Good Lord Bird and Thomas Berger's Little Big Man / Martin Kich

James McBride and James Brown : the varied appeal of Kill 'Em and Leave / Johnathon T. Lawrence

James McBride's short fiction : "Father Abe" / Liyang Dong and Tana Jackson Shealey.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781682176948

9781682176955

1682176959

OCLC:

1038716589