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Author Walker, Melissa.

Title Down from the mountaintop : Black women's novels in the wake of the civil rights movement, 1966-1989 / Melissa Walker.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [1991]
©1991

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  813.54 WALKER    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  813.5409 W182D    Check Shelf
Description viii, 226 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 219) and index.
Contents [Slavery and reconstruction] -- Jubilee (1966) by Margaret Walker. Dessa Rose (1986) by Sherley Anne Williams. Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison -- [From the great war to World War II] -- The bluest eye (1970) by Toni Morrison. The color purple (1982) by Alice Walker -- [Harbingers of change : Harlem] -- Daddy was a number runner (1970) by Louise Meriwether. A short walk (1979) by Alice Childress. A measure of time (1983) by Rosa Guy -- [Private lives before the movement] -- The third life of Grange Copeland (1970) by Alice Walker. Sula (1973) by Toni Morrison -- [From desegregation to voting rights] -- Song of Solomon (1977) by Toni Morrison. -- The Lakestown rebellion (1978) by Kristin Hunter -- Sassafrass, cypress, and indigo (1982) by Ntozake Shange. Betsey Brown (1985) by Ntozake Shange -- [In the wake of the movement] Meridian (1976) by Alice Walker. The salt eaters (1980) by Toni Cade Bambara. Tar baby (1981) by Toni Morrison -- [Afterword] -- The temple of my familiar (1989) by Alice Walker.
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.
African American women -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements in literature.
African American women in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Indexed Term English fiction By Black women
United States
Subject Civil Rights Movement.
ISBN 0300048556 alkaline paper
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