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Wrestling angels into song : the fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson /
Herman Beavers offers a richly nuanced study of Ernes J. Gaines, James Alan McPherson, and Ralph Ellison as writers who have found ways to invest circumstances that might otherwise be seen as sites of squalor or despair with a sense of cultural vitality. He examines the Ellisonian themes and motifs...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©1995.
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| Colección: | Penn studies in contemporary American fiction.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Innovations of Kin
- Chapter 1 Relative Politics: The Literary Triumverate of Ralph Waldo Ellison, Ernest J. Gaines, and James Alan McPherson
- Chapter 2 The Possible in Things Unwritten: Kinship and Innovation in the Fictions of Ellison, Gaines, and McPherson
- Part II: Trueblood Echoing
- Chapter 3 Tilling the Soil to Find Ourselves: Conversion, Labor, and [Re]membering in Gaines's Of Love and Dust and In My Father's House
- Chapter 4 If It's Going To Be Any Good, It's Your Story: Legibility, [Un]speakability, and Historical Performance in McPherson's A Solo Song: For DocPart III: The Lower Frequencies
- Chapter 5 Voices from the Underground: Conspiracy, Intimacy, and Voice in Gaines's Fictions
- Chapter 6 The Life of the Law Is Thus a Life of Art: Antagonism and Persuasion in McPherson's Legal Fiction Trilogy
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- D
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