Activism and the American Novel: Religion and Resistance in Fiction by Women of Color - Hardcover

Romero

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813933285 ISBN 13: 9780813933283

Verlag: University of Virginia Press, 2012

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Book by Romero Channette

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Críticas:

This book takes as its focus an important, powerful, widely read, and widely taught body of contemporary American literature by renowned women of color. The author's sophisticated grasp of spirituality and her thorough, nuanced knowledge of contemporary literature shine through the book. This is a valuable work by a gifted and insightful literary critic. --Joanna Brooks, San Diego State University, author of American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures Activism and the American Novel provides an original and significant contribution to U.S. literary studies, ethnic studies, and feminist scholarship. Bringing a diverse group of ethnic authors into dialogue, Romero offers a more complicated multicultural focus and an important direction for twenty-first-century work. --AnaLouise Keating, Texas Woman's University, author of Teaching Transformation: Transcultural Classroom Dialogues

Reseña del editor:

Since the 1980s, many activists and writers have turned from identity politics toward ethnic religious traditions to rediscover and reinvigorate their historic role in resistance to colonialism and oppression. In her examination of contemporary fiction by women of color--including Toni Morrison, Ana Castillo, Toni Cade Bambara, Louise Erdrich, and Leslie Marmon Silko--Channette Romero considers the way these novels newly engage with Vodun, Santer a, Candombl , and American Indian traditions. Critical of a widespread disengagement from civic participation and of the contemporary novel's disconnection from politics, this fiction attempts to transform the novel and the practice of reading into a means of political engagement and an inspiration for social change.

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• Verlag: University of Virginia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0813933285
• ISBN 13: 9780813933283
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232