Inspiriting influences : tradition, revision, and Afro-American women's novels / Michael Awkward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Awkward, Michael.

Contributor:

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

Series:

Gender and culture

Gender and culture.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

United States.

History.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)--History--20th century.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

African American women--Intellectual life--20th century.

African American women.

African American women--Intellectual life.

African American women in literature.

Intertextuality.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 178 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Tradition, revision, and Afro-American women's novels

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 1989.

Summary:

A critical look at works from this emerging body of literature. Examines Their eyes were watching God, The bluest eye, The women of Brewster Place, and The color purple. Provides insight to the aesthetically complex and ideologically challenging novels of Afro- American women.

Contents:

Introduction: "Mah tongue is in mah friend's mouf": toward an intertextual reading of Afro-American women's novels

"The inaudible voice of it all": silence, voice, and action in Their eyes were watching God"

"The evil of fulfillment": scapegoating and narration in The bluest eye

Authorial dreams of wholeness: (dis)unity, (literary) parentage, and The women of Brewster Place

The color purple and the achievement of (comm)unity.

Notes:

"Jacket illustration: The Librarian. A painting by Winhold Reiss ..."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-174) and index.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0231068069

9780231068062

0231068077

9780231068079

OCLC:

18779712