Specifying - Susan Willis

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Résumé :
With a series of brilliant and provocative essays, Susan Willis has produced the first sustained, book-length study of fiction by contemporary American black women writers. Using a Marxist approach, Willis places the work of Zora Neale Hurston, Paule Marshall, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and Toni Cade Bambara in a critical context that includes history, culture, politics, and literary theory. Willis’...

Biographie:
Susan Willis is associate professor of English and the Literature Program at Duke University. She is the author of A Primer for Daily Life, and her articles have been published in a number of edited books, journals, and literary reviews....

Sommaire:
work promises to make a major impact among scholars, students, and general readers interested in contemporary fiction, Afro-American culture, women’...