| Description |
1 online resource (187 pages) |
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American literature readings in the 21st century |
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American literature readings in the 21st century.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- "SIsters in sin": discourse, discipline, and difference in Requiem for a nun -- "The image of you, true or false, last[s] a lifetime": Lillian Hellman's memories of Black women -- "The very house of difference": Audre Lorde's autobiographies -- "Just this side of colored": Ellen Foster and Night talk -- "Who can you friend with, love with like that?": Sherley Anne William's Dessa Rose -- "A girl from a whole other race": Toni Morrison's "Recitatif," Beloved, and Paradise -- Coda. Getting past white women's fantasies: Living out loud |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-183) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Women in literature.
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Race in literature.
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African American women in literature.
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Interracial friendship.
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Classics.
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African American women in literature
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American literature
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Interracial friendship
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Race in literature
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Women in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780230603356 |
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0230603351 |
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9781403972385 |
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1403972389 |
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1281361836 |
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9781281361837 |
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9781349533664 |
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1349533661 |
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