The Fiction of Gloria Naylor - Houses and Spaces of Resistance

Informationen zum Autor Maxine Lavon Montgomery is the author of The Apocalypse in African-American Fiction and the editor of Conversations with Gloria Naylor. Her articles have appeared in African-American Review, College Language Association Journal, and The Literary Griot. She is an associate professor in the English department at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Klappentext One of the first critical studies of this acclaimed writer. Including an interview with Naylor and focusing on her first four novels, the book situates various acts of insurgency in her work within a larger framework of African American opposition to hegemonic authority. What truly distinguishes this volume is its engagement with African American vernacular forms and twentieth-century political movements.

Product details

• Authors: Maxine Montgomery, Maxine Lavon Montgomery
• Publisher: Univeristy of Tennessee Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2011
• EAN: 9781572337220
• ISBN: 978-1-57233-722-0
• No. of pages: 144
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies