Race Mixing - Southern Fiction Since the Sixties

Informationen zum Autor Suzanne W. Jones is a professor of English at the University of Richmond. She has published many articles about southern literature, and she is the editor of four books: two collections of essays, South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture (with Sharon Monteith) and Writing the Woman Artist, and two collections of stories, Crossing the Color Line: Readings in Black and White and Growing Up in the South. Klappentext Employing a dynamic model of the relationship between text and context, Jones shows how more than thirty relevant writers -- including Madison Smartt Bell, Larry Brown, Bebe Moore Campbell, Thulani Davis, Ellen Douglas, Ernest Gaines, Josephine Humphreys, Randall Kenan, Reynolds Price, Alice Walker, and Tom Wolfe -- illuminate the complexities of the color line and explore problems in defining racial identity today. Zusammenfassung "We need these fictions!Jones writes! "to help us imagine our way out of the social structures and mind-sets that mythologize the past! fragment individuals! prejudge people! and divide communities."

Product details

• Authors: Suzanne W. Jones, Suzanne W. (University of Richmond) Jones
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.04.2006
• EAN: 9780801883934
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8393-4
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies