'High-Topped Shoes' and Other Signifiers of Race, Class, Gender and Ethnicity in Selected Fiction by William Faulkner and Toni Morrison

"High-topped Shoes" and Other Signifiers of Race, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity in Selected Fiction by William Faulkner and Toni Morrison examines the means through which individuals, historically, have constructed their social and personal identities. Focusing primarily on selected fiction by William Faulkner and Toni Morrison, the work explores the myths embedded in historical and modern artifacts, such as the high-topped shoe and high-heeled slipper, and their impact on the construction of ethnic and gender roles. Combining anthropology and women's studies, this work is an interesting new study of race, gender, class, and ethnicity in literature.

Tommie Lee Jackson is Professor of English at St. Cloud State University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the author of The Existential Fiction of Ayi Kwei Armah, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre also from the University Press of America and An Invincible Summer: Female Diasporan Authors.