From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison : ethics in modern & postmodern American narrative

From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison : ethics in modern & postmodern American narrative / Jeffrey J. Folks.

Author/creator	Folks, Jeffrey J. (Jeffrey Jay), 1948-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	New York : P. Lang, ©2001.
Description	x, 199 pages ; 23 cm.
Subject(s)	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. Postmodernism (Literature)--United States. Modernism (Literature)--United States. African Americans in literature. Narration (Rhetoric) Race in literature. Southern States--In literature.

Series	Modern American literature ; vol. 25 Modern American literature (New York, N.Y.) ; vol. 25. ^A389256
Contents	"Last call to the West": Richard Wright's The color curtain -- James Agee's quest for forgiveness in Let us now praise famous men -- James Agee's fashioning of guilt: The morning watch -- Ernest J. Gaines's ideal of community in A gathering of old men -- A meditation on history and ethics: Ernest J. Gaines's A lesson before dying -- Henry Roth's narratives of captivity -- Physical disability and the sacramental community in Flannery O'Connor's Everything that rises must converge -- Race, class, and redemption in Walker Percy's The last gentleman -- The risks of membership: Richard Ford's The sportswriter -- Representing the subaltern figure in William Styron's The confessions of Nat Turner and Thomas Keneally's The chant of Jimmie Blacksmith -- Obligations of the dispossessed: the ethical vision of Kaye Gibbons's Ellen Foster and A virtuous woman -- Language and cultural authority in Toni Morrison's Jazz.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-192) and index.
LCCN	00041253
ISBN	0820451053 (pbk.)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PS374.E86 F65 2001	✔ Available	Place Hold