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Down from the Mountain Top – Black Womens Novels in the Wake of the Civil Rights: Black Women's Novels in the Wake of the Civil Rights Movement, 1966-89 - Hardcover
Since the peak of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, African-American women have produced many significant novels that grapple with the struggle for social justice. In this book, Melissa Walker offers fresh readings of 18 of these novels examining how they relate to the movement and to its failure to achieve educational, economic and social equality. Beginning with Margaret Walker's "Jubilee" (1966) and working through to Alice Walker's "Temple of My Familiar" (1989), Melissa Walker discusses all the novels of Toni Morrison and Alice Walker as well as selected works by eight other well-known black women writers. Walker analyzes the forms, thematic concerns and narrative strategies of the novels, and reveals the way in which the civil rights movement and the still unresolved conflicts over race, class and gender have influenced them.
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- PublisherYale University Press
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0300048556
- ISBN 13 9780300048551
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages234
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Down from the Mountaintop: Black Women`s Novels in the Wake of the Civil Rights Movement, 1966-1989
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ISBN 10: 0300048556
ISBN 13: 9780300048551
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is bound in gray cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. viii/226 pages. "In the years since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, African-American women have contemplated the struggle for racial justice in an outpouring of novels. this book offers interpretations of 18 of these novels - including works by Margaret Walker, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange and others - examining how they relate to the movement, to the conditions that fostered it and to its failure to achieve educational, economic and social equality.". Seller Inventory # ABE-1666682778336
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