Research Catalog

Title

African American women writers' historical fiction / by Ana Nunes.

Author

Nunes, Ana, 1973-

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Holdings

Details

Description

248 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"This volume explores African American historical fiction written by women in the last four decades of the twentieth century. Comprehensive in scope, this book refers to over thirty authors whose work has contributed to the tradition, from Margaret Walker to Sherley Anne Williams to Toni Morrison. Ana Nunes's approach to the text emphasizes the narrative and thematic achievements of individual novels against the backdrop of the main trends and developments of the contemporary African American historical novel."--p. [4] of cover.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• African Americans in literature
• American fiction
• American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• American fiction > African American authors
• American fiction > History and criticism
• American fiction > Women authors
• Historical fiction, American
• Historical fiction, American > History and criticism
• LITERARY CRITICISM > General
• Literary studies: from c 1900 -
• Literary theory
• Literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Contexts -- Setting the record straight: Margaret Walker's Jubilee -- History as birthmark: Gayl Jones's Corregidora -- "The undocumentable inside of history": Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose -- "Her best thing, her beautiful, magical best thing": Toni Morrison's Beloved and Phyllis Perry's Stigmata.

ISBN

• 9780230112537
• 0230112536

LCCN

^^2010042331

OCLC

669751252

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library