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From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison : ethics in modern & postmodern American narrative
- Title
- From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison : ethics in modern & postmodern American narrative / Jeffrey J. Folks.
- Author
- Folks, Jeffrey J. (Jeffrey Jay), 1948-
- Publication
- New York : P. Lang, ©2001.
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- Description
- x, 199 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison: Ethics in Modern and Postmodern American Narrative studies the relationship of literature to contemporary ethical problems. Focusing on southern and Africa American writers, this book employs theoretical approaches from ethnicity studies, regional criticism, and postcolonial theory. It intends to insert a reading of ethics into the critical study of fictional and nonfictional narratives by Richard Wright, James Agee, Flannery O'Connor, Ernest J. Gaines, Walker Percy, Richard Ford, Toni Morrison, and other modern and postmodern American writers."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Modern American literature ; v. 25
- Uniform Title
- Modern American literature (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 25.
- Subject
- 1900 - 1999
- American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Ethics in literature
- American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism
- American fiction > Southern States > History and criticism
- African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century
- Narration (Rhetoric) > History > 20th century
- Postmodernism (Literature) > United States
- Modernism (Literature) > United States
- African Americans in literature
- Race in literature
- Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique
- Morale dans la littérature
- Roman américain > Auteurs noirs américains > Histoire et critique
- Roman américain > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire et critique
- Postmodernisme (Littérature) > États-Unis
- Modernisme (Littérature) > États-Unis
- Auteurs noirs américains dans la littérature
- Narration
- Race dans la littérature
- États-Unis (Sud) dans la littérature
- African Americans > Intellectual life
- American fiction
- American fiction > African American authors
- Literature
- Modernism (Literature)
- Narration (Rhetoric)
- Postmodernism (Literature)
- Romans
- Amerikaans
- Ethiek
- Southern States > In literature
- Southern States
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-192) and index.
- Contents
- "Last call to the West": Richard Wright's The color curtain -- James Agee's quest for forgiveness in Let us now praise famous men -- James Agee's fashioning of guilt: The morning watch -- Ernest J. Gaines's ideal of community in A gathering of old men -- A meditation on history and ethics: Ernest J. Gaines's A lesson before dying -- Henry Roth's narratives of captivity -- Physical disability and the sacramental community in Flannery O'Connor's Everything that rises must converge -- Race, class, and redemption in Walker Percy's The last gentleman -- The risks of membership: Richard Ford's The sportswriter -- Representing the subaltern figure in William Styron's The confessions of Nat Turner and Thomas Keneally's The chant of Jimmie Blacksmith -- Obligations of the dispossessed: the ethical vision of Kaye Gibbons's Ellen Foster and A virtuous woman -- Language and cultural authority in Toni Morrison's Jazz.
- ISBN
- 9780820451053
- 0820451053
- LCCN
- 00041253
- OCLC
- ocm44133018
- SCSB-14176282
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library