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Activism and the American novel : religion and resistance in fiction by women of color / / Channette Romero



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Autore: Romero Channette Visualizza persona
Titolo: Activism and the American novel : religion and resistance in fiction by women of color / / Channette Romero Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2012
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (227 p.)
Disciplina: 813.009/9287
Soggetto topico: American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism
American fiction - Minority authors - History and criticism
Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century
Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century
Religion in literature
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Searching for relations -- Reconstituting the public sphere -- Spiritual temporalities and histories: Cristina Garcia and Leanne Howe -- Rewriting America's exceptionalism: Toni Morrison -- Post-civil rights community: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, and Ana Castillo -- Indigenous sovereignties: Leslie Marmon Silko and Louise Erdrich -- Conclusion: Toward a literary activism.
Sommario/riassunto: Critical of a widespread disengagement from civic participation and of the contemporary novel's disconnection from politics, this fiction attempts to transform the novel and the practice of reading into a means of political engagement and an inspiration for social change.
Titolo autorizzato: Activism and the American novel  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-57598-1
0-8139-3330-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910816713903321
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