Research Catalog

Title

Gayl Jones : the language of voice and freedom in her writings / Casey Clabough ; foreword by Daniel Cross Turner.

Author

Clabough, Casey, 1974-

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., Publishers, c2008.

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Details

Description

ix, 206 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Gayl Jones has a lived a life dedicated to the art of "verbal authenticity." This first single-author study of Gayl Jones recovers the work of an under-examined yet immensely skillful contemporary writer. The book addresses crucial themes germane to Jones's work, including questions of Afrocentrism, diasporas, mythopoesis, post-colonialism and globalization"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

Jones, Gayl > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-202) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Liberating voice -- "Toward an all-inclusive structure" : early fiction -- Speaking the grotesque : short fiction -- Toward feminine mythopoetic visions : poetry -- Afrocentric recolonizations : 1990s fiction -- A quest for wholeness : criticism -- Liberated voice -- Appendix I : an interview with Gayl Jones / by Claudia C. Tate -- Appendix II : an interview with Gayle Jones / by Charles H. Rowell.

ISBN

• 9780786433797 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 0786433795 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008020051

OCLC

• 220330848
• SCSB-12652808

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library