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Author Butler-Evans, Elliott, 1938-

Title Race, gender, and desire : narrative strategies in the fiction of Toni Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker / Elliott Butler-Evans.

Publication Info. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1989.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  813.5409 B987R    Check Shelf
Description viii, 227 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 211-219.
Contents Producing the signs of race: self-fashioning in Black Aesthetic discourse -- Enabling discourse for Afro-American women writers -- Racial discourse, aesthetics, and desire in Morrison's The bluest eye and Sula -- Desire, ambivalence, and nationalist-feminist discourse in Bambara's short stories -- History and genealogy in Walker's The third life of Grange Copeland and Meridian -- Rewriting and revising in the 1980's: Tar baby, The color purple, and The salt eaters.
Note Includes index.
Subject American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Walker, Alice, 1944- -- Criticism and interpretation.
African American women -- Intellectual life.
Bambara, Toni Cade -- Criticism and interpretation.
African American women in literature.
Morrison, Toni -- Criticism and interpretation.
African Americans in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Race in literature.
ISBN 0877226083 alkaline paper
9780877226086 alkaline paper
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