Down from the Mountaintop
Subtitle: Black Women`s Novels in the Wake of the Civil Rights Movement, 1966-1989
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: January 27, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780300054323
Subjects: Black studies; Human rights; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Women's studies; c 1960 to c 1970; c 1970 to c 1980; c 1980 to c 1990; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; English; Literary Criticism; USA; American - African American & Black; Science / General; 20th century; African American authors; American fiction; History; History and criticism; United States; Women Authors; Women and literature
Description: In the years since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, African-American women have contemplated the struggle for racial justice in an outpouring of novels. this book offers interpretations of 18 of these novels - including works by Margaret Walker, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange and others - examining how they relate to the movement, to the conditions that fostered it and to its failure to achieve educational, economic and social equality.