Author: Karen Carmean GastonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Feminism and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Theme of Female Self-discovery in the Novels of Judith Rossner, Gail Godwin, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison
Author: Karen Carmean GastonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Feminism and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Evolving Self in the Novels of Gail Godwin
Author: Lihong XiePublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807119242
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
As Xie leads us through these works, we find Godwin's evolving heroines emerging out of lively, intense, sometimes painful dialogue with both the self - past, present, and future - and the social world of family, birthplace, culture, and friendships.
CONFLICT OF CULTURES IN TONI MORRISON‰ÛªS FICTION
Author: Dr. Ravichand MandalapuPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387537008
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Culture has been called "The way of life for an entire society." The term culture commonly refers to universal human capacity to classify, codify and communicate their expressions symbolically. Culture should be regarded as the set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of a society.
Postmodern Feminist Writers
Author: W. S. KottiswariPublisher: Sarup & Sons
ISBN: 9788176258210
Category : Feminism and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The Intellectual in Twentieth-Century Southern Literature
Author: Tara PowellPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807138991
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Never in its long history has the South provided an entirely comfortable home for the intellectual. In this thought-provoking contribution to the field of southern studies, Tara Powell considers the evolving ways that major post--World War II southern writers have portrayed intellectuals -- from Flannery O'Connor's ironic view of "interleckchuls" to Gail Godwin's southerners striving to feel at home in the academic world. Although Walker Percy, like his fellow Catholic writer O'Connor, explicitly rejected the intellectual label for himself, he nonetheless introduced the modern novel of ideas to southern letters, Powell shows, by placing sympathetic, non-caricatured intellectuals at the center of his influential works. North Carolinians Doris Betts and her student Tim McLaurin made their living teaching literature and creative writing in academia, and Betts's fiction often includes dislocated academics while McLaurin's superb memoirs, often funny, frequently point up the limitations of the mind as opposed to the heart and the spirit. Examining works by Ernest Gaines, Alice Walker, and Randall Kenan, Powell traces the evolution of the black American literacy narrative from a stress on the post-Emancipation conviction, which saw formal education as an essential means of resisting oppression, to the growing suspicion in the post--civil rights era of literacy acts that may estrange educated blacks from the larger black community. Powell concludes with Godwin, who embraces university life in her fiction as she explores what it means to be a southern female intellectual in the modern world -- a world in which all those markers inscribe isolation.
Woman and Her Family
Author: Uma Kuppuswami AlladiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American families in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
New Dimensions of Spirituality
Author: Karla FC HollowayPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This series of essays on Toni Morrison's first four novels--The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Sula, and Tar Baby is the delightful, intelligent collaboration of a white of Greek descent (Demetrakopoulos) and a black American (Holloway). In addition to the influence of their respective backgrounds, Demetrakopoulos is particularly interested in women's studies and Jungian psychology, and Holloway in black studies and linguistics; these fields inform their individual contributions. . . . The clear writing is free of academic jargon and makes exceptionally good sense. Very highly recommended to academic libraries, especially for women's studies and black literature collections. Choice This first full-length study of the novels of Toni Morrison is a breakthrough in literary criticism, not only from the standpoint of feminist critique but as a biracial, bicultural dialogue on literary, social, and spiritual themes. Holloway, a specialist in Black studies and psycholinguistics, and Demetrakopoulos, whose academic interests include women's studies and Jungian psychology, weave their multidisciplinary interests and divergent experience into an integrated study of Toni Morrison's novels. The authors' introductory essays put Morrison's work in critical perspective and approach her literary vision in terms of its cultural, racial, and historical linkages and meanings. The novels are then considered chronologically by both authors, who each comment freely on the interpretations and viewpoints of the other.
Articles on Women Writers
Author: Narda Lacey SchwartzPublisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio, c1977-c1986
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Toni Morrison
Author: Alladi UmaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American women in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Contributed articles.
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