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Women and Race in Contemporary U.S. Writing: From Faulkner to Morrison

✍ Scribed by Kelly Lynch Reames (auth.)

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Leaves
194
Series
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
Edition
1
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

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

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-27
“Sisters in Sin”: Discourse, Discipline, and Difference in Requiem for a Nun ....Pages 29-48
“The Image of You, True or False, Last[s] a Lifetime”: Lillian Hellman’s Memories of Black Women....Pages 49-72
“The Very House of Difference”: Audre Lorde’s Autobiographies....Pages 73-90
“Just This Side of Colored”: Ellen Foster and Night Talk ....Pages 91-111
“Who Can You Friend With, Love With Like That?”: Sherley Anne Williams’s Dessa Rose ....Pages 113-129
“A Girl from a Whole Other Race”: Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif,” Beloved, and Paradise ....Pages 131-156
Coda Getting Past White Women’s Fantasies: Living Out Loud ....Pages 157-160
Back Matter....Pages 161-187

✦ Subjects

North American Literature;Gender Studies;Literary Theory;Cultural Theory;US History;Modern History

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