"High-topped shoes" and other signifiers of race, class, gender, and ethnicity in selected fiction by William Faulkner and Toni Morrison /
Jackson, Tommie Lee.
Lanham, Md. : University Press of America,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-147) and index.
"High-topped shoes": signifiers of race, class, and gender -- Wedded imagery in Fitzgerald's Tender is the night, Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, and Morrison's Paradise and Love -- "What's in a name?": the custom among African Americans of name bestowal in selected literature -- The influence of African American folktales on selected literature by Faulkner and Morrison -- Snopesism as a form of Tricksterism -- The elliptical narrative prose style of Faulkner and Morrison.
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962
Morrison, Toni
Race in literature.
Social classes in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
African Americans in literature.