From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison: Ethics in Modern & Postmodern American NarrativeP. Lang, 2001 - 199 pages From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison: Ethics in Modern and Postmodern American Narrative studies the relationship of literature to contemporary ethical problems. Focusing on southern and African American writers, this book employs theoretical approaches from ethnicity studies, regional criticism, and postcolonial theory. It intends to insert a reading of ethics into the critical study of fictional and nonfictional narratives by Richard Wright, James Agee, Flannery O'Connor, Ernest J. Gaines, Walker Percy, Richard Ford, Toni Morrison, and other modern and postmodern American writers. |
Contents
Richard Wrights The Color Curtain | 19 |
James Agees Quest for Forgiveness in Let Us Now Praise | 31 |
The Morning Watch | 45 |
Copyright | |
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aesthetic African American Agee's alienation artistic Bandung Bandung Conference Barrett believe Black Power Call It Sleep character childhood colonial Color Curtain condition conflict connection consciousness contemporary criticism culture David death Ellen Foster essay ethical existence experience father feels fiction figure Flannery O'Connor Ford Ford's Frank Gaines Gaines's Gathering of Old Gibbons's Grant Gudger human identity imagines immigrant implies Ira's James Agee Jazz Jefferson Jewish Jimmie Jimmie's Kaye Gibbons Keneally Keneally's language Last Gentleman legacies Lesson Before Dying literary literature lives middle-class modern modernist moral Morrison's mother narrative narrator Nat Turner notes novel Percy's political quest race racial reading relationship religious represented responsibility Richard Wright role Roth Roth's Ruby Rude Stream sense sexual shared slave slavery social society South southern Sportswriter Styron's subaltern suffering suggests tenant tion Toni Morrison tradition understanding Violet and Joe Walker Percy Western women writing York