Title: Down from the mountaintop
First published: 1991
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.
Subjects: History and criticism, American fiction, African Americans in literature, Women and literature, African American women, Civil rights movements in literature, Intellectual life, African American women in literature, Women authors, African American authors, History, Afro-Americans in literature, Afro-American women in literature, Afro-American authors, American fiction, african american authors, history and criticism, American fiction, women authors, American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, Criticism and interpretation
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS374.N4 W35 1991