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

✍ Scribed by Kelly Lynch Reames

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 199
• Series: American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Much feminist writing of recent decades has addressed the difficulties of relating across racial differences. In Women and Race in Contemporary U.S. Writing, Reames examines novels and autobiographies to discover how contemporary writers have imagined possibilities for relationships between African American and white women that overcome the stereotypical patterns of racism. Works by William Faulkner, Lillian Hellman, Audre Lorde, Kaye Gibbons, Elizabeth Cox, Sherley Anne Williams, and Toni Morrison provide examples of sometimes loving and often conflicted relationships between child and nurse, employer and domestic worker, political allies, and friends. Reames argues that these literary works show that meaningful interracial relationships are possible only when white women recognize their racial privilege. В 

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
1 Introduction......Page 12
2 “Sisters in Sin”: Discourse, Discipline, and Difference in Requiem for a Nun......Page 40
3 “The Image of You, True or False, Last[s] a Lifetime”: Lillian Hellman’s Memories of Black Women......Page 60
4 “The Very House of Difference”: Audre Lorde’s Autobiographies......Page 84
5 “Just This Side of Colored”: Ellen Foster and Night Talk......Page 102
6 “Who Can You Friend With, Love With Like That?”: Sherley Anne Williams’s Dessa Rose......Page 124
7 “A Girl from a Whole Other Race”: Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif,” Beloved, and Paradise......Page 142
Coda. Getting Past White Women’s Fantasies: Living Out Loud......Page 168
Notes......Page 172
Works Cited......Page 188
G......Page 196
P......Page 197
W......Page 198

✦ Subjects

Литературоведение;Изучение зарубежной литературы;Литература США;