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Wisconsin Project on American Writers Ser.: Specifying : Black Women Writing the American Experience by Susan Willis (1989, Trade Paperback)

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Title: Specifying. Language: English. Number of Pages: 196. Weight: 0.54 lbs. Publication Date: 1994-12-31. Publisher: UNIV OF WISCONSIN PR.

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With a series of brilliant and provocative essays, Susan Willis has produced the first sustained, book-length study of fiction by contemporary American black women writers. Using a Marxist approach, Willis places the work of Zora Neale Hurston, Paule Marshall, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and Toni Cade Bambara in a critical context that includes history, culture, politics, and literary theory. Willis' work promises to make a major impact among scholars, students, and general readers interested in contemporary fiction, Afro-American culture, women's studies, American studies, and the conjunction of literary and political theory. The tradition of literary criticism about black women writers has, until now, focused primarily on establishing the existence of these writers and defining the contexts within which they may be appreciated. Willis goes further by looking at the literary ramifications of particular themes that run throughout the works of major writers in this tradition--her most pivotal one being the movement from the past to the future, from girlhood to womanhood. Her approach is different from those of previous works in that she focuses strongly on these writers' literary modes--narrative, metaphor, etc.--and demonstrates how these modes are themselves essential aspects of their ideas as well as their process. Willis establishes that the novelists she treats are not only historians who document the problems of capitalist industrial society but also visionaries who imagine for their characters alternative modes of work, community, and economy, toward which readers may look as they approach the future.

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University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN-10
0299108945
ISBN-13
9780299108946
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Author
Susan Willis
Publication Name
Specifying : Black Women Writing the American Experience
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Series
Wisconsin Project on American Writers Ser.
Publication Year
1989
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
196 Pages

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8.6in
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0.5in
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5.6in
Item Weight
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Ps153.N5w56 1987
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"Any reader even vaguely interested in contemporary Afro-American women's literature will find Willis' study immensely informative. Specifying is the most illuminating and theoretically challenging book-length explication to date of the works of one of the most talented groups of writers ever to have graced the American literary landscape."--Michael Awkward, Michigan Quarterly, "Any reader even vaguely interested in contemporary Afro-American women's literature will find Willis' study immensely informative. Specifying is the most illuminating and theoretically challenging book-length explication to date of the works of one of the most talented groups of writers ever to have graced the American literary landscape."-Michael Awkward, Michigan Quarterly
Copyright Date
1989
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
American / African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Lccn
86-020202
Dewey Decimal
813/.009/9287
Dewey Edition
19
Genre
Literary Criticism, Social Science

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