The Tragedy and Comedy of Resistance
Subtitle: Reading Modernity Through Black Women's Fiction (Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: September 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780812235104
Subjects: Black studies; General & Literary Fiction; Literary studies: general; Novels, other prose & writers; Women's studies; United States; History; African American Novel And Short Story; Women As Authors (American Literature); Women Authors; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literature: Classics; USA; History and criticism; American - African American & Black; African American authors; Women and literature; American - General; 20th century; American fiction
First sentence: The problem of our own relation to Others' suffering finds an extreme case in slavery, because it presents an oppression so absolute that in its present tense, it has no recorded voice to speak to those outside it.