Race, Gender, and Desire: Narrative Strategies in the Fiction of Toni Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker - Hardcover

Elliott Butler-Evans

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0877226083 ISBN 13: 9780877226086

Publisher: Temple University Press, 1989

Synopsis

Book by Elliott Butler-Evans

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From the Publisher:

Explores the manner in which the politics of race and gender overdetermine narrative structures

From the Inside Flap:

"Butler-Evans's work is everywhere sensitive to the nuances of textual disruptions, to subtle shifts of point of view and to rhetorical dissonance. His dense and adroit readings of even the most familiar writings force the reader to reconsider his or her relation to and understanding of the text in question.... An influential contribution to one of the most exciting new areas of literary study and critical/theoretical debate."
—Valerie Smith, Princeton University

"A work of engaging, challenging scholarship. The critical matrix that informs many of the important issues in contemporary critical/literary theory and a fine understanding of the often-dismissed Black Arts Movement whose suppositions, as he demonstrates, find refiguration in—and are challenged by—the work of Bambara, Morrison, and Walker.... He offers a much-needed study that boldly asserts the appropriateness of poststructuralist Afrocentric/feminist literary analysis. Many scholars are starving for sophisticated theoretical analysis of the brilliant work of Afro American writers such as Morrison, Walker, and Bambara. Butler-Evans's provocative study will provide such readers with much food for though, and may permanently alter the ways in which we read these writers."
—Michael Awkward, Center of Afro-American and African Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

About this edition

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0877226083
• ISBN 13: 9780877226086
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 227