Inspiriting Influences: Tradition, Revision, and Afro-American Women's Novels

By Michael Awkward

Book Overview

A critical look at works from this emerging body of literature. Examines Their eyes were watching God, The bluest eye, The women of Brewster Place, and The color purple. Provides insight to the aesthetically complex and ideologically challenging novels of Afro-American women. Annotation copyright Bo

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231068077
• ISBN13: 9780231068079
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher