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Domestic Abuse in the Novels of African American Women: A Critical Study

Heather Duerre Humann
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Description:The literary tradition begun by Zora Neale Hurston in the 1930s has since flourished and taken new directions with a diverse body of fiction by more contemporary African-American women writers. This book examines the treatment of domestic violence in Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Gayl Jones's Corregidora, Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place and Linden Hills, Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Love, Terry McMillan's Mama and A Day Late and a Dollar Short, and Octavia Butler's Seed to Harvest. These novels have given voice to oppressed and abused women.The aims of this work are to examine how female African American novelists portray domestic abuse; to outline how literary depictions of domestic violence are responsive to cultural and historical forces; and to explore the literary tradition of novels that deal with domestic abuse within the African American community.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Domestic Abuse in the Novels of African American Women: A Critical Study. To get started finding Domestic Abuse in the Novels of African American Women: A Critical Study, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
180
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PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
McFarland & Company
Release
2014
ISBN
1476616418

Domestic Abuse in the Novels of African American Women: A Critical Study

Heather Duerre Humann
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Description: The literary tradition begun by Zora Neale Hurston in the 1930s has since flourished and taken new directions with a diverse body of fiction by more contemporary African-American women writers. This book examines the treatment of domestic violence in Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Gayl Jones's Corregidora, Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place and Linden Hills, Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Love, Terry McMillan's Mama and A Day Late and a Dollar Short, and Octavia Butler's Seed to Harvest. These novels have given voice to oppressed and abused women.The aims of this work are to examine how female African American novelists portray domestic abuse; to outline how literary depictions of domestic violence are responsive to cultural and historical forces; and to explore the literary tradition of novels that deal with domestic abuse within the African American community.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Domestic Abuse in the Novels of African American Women: A Critical Study. To get started finding Domestic Abuse in the Novels of African American Women: A Critical Study, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
180
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
McFarland & Company
Release
2014
ISBN
1476616418

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