From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison
Subtitle: ethics in modern & postmodern American narrative
By: Jeffrey J. Folks.
Series: Modern American literature ;; v. 25; Modern American literature (New York, N.Y.) ;; v. 25.
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Ethics in literature.; American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.; American fiction -- Southern States -- History and criticism.; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century.; Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.; Modernism (Literature) -- United States.; African Americans in literature.; Race in literature.; Southern States -- In literature.
Description: "From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison: Ethics in Modern and Postmodern American Narrative studies the relationship of literature to contemporary ethical problems. Focusing on southern and Africa American writers, this book employs theoretical approaches from ethnicity studies, regional criticism, and postcolonial theory. It intends to insert a reading of ethics into the critical study of fictional and nonfictional narratives by Richard Wright, James Agee, Flannery O'Connor, Ernest J. Gaines, Walker Percy, Richard Ford, Toni Morrison, and other modern and postmodern American writers."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-192) and index.