{"product_id":"black-women-novelists-and-the-nationalist-aesthetic-paperback-softback-9780253208552","title":"Black Women Novelists and the Nationalist Aesthetic (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253208552","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBlack Women Novelists and the Nationalist Aesthetic\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMadhu Dubey (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253208552\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 22 May 1994\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 1.1 cm, 0.34 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A clear and uncluttered writer, Dubey helps us understand these ideological and literary complexities.\" —Virginia Quarterly Review\u003cbr\u003e \" . . . an important contribution to the study of African-American women's fiction. Not only does it provide a compelling introductory account of the nationalist aesthetic, but it provides a detailed documentation of the way in which each of these novels was received in the critical climate of the seventies.\" —College Literature\u003cbr\u003e \" . . . essential reading for anyone intrigued by the narrative craft and social impact of the novels of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Gayl Jones.\" —Claudia Tate\u003cbr\u003e \"Dubey forcefully articulates the connection between political and personal mediation in these novels with subtlety, depth, and complexity and without obscuring their textuality.\" —Signs\u003cbr\u003e Drawing upon Black feminist theory, Madhu Dubey shows how writers such as Morrison, Walker, and Jones challenged traditional models of Black female identity and generated their own visions of identity, community, and historical change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Black Feminist Criticism\u003cbr\u003e I. I Am New Man: Black Nationalism and the Black Aesthetic\u003cbr\u003e II. What Did We Lack?: Uses of the Grotesque Mode in The Bluest Eye\u003cbr\u003e III. No Bottom and No Top: Oppositions in Sula\u003cbr\u003e IV. A New World Song: The Blues Form of Corregidora\u003cbr\u003e V. Don't You Explain Me: The Unreadability of Eva's Man\u003cbr\u003e VI. To Survive Whole: The Integrative Aims of Womanism in The Third Life of Grange Copeland\u003cbr\u003e VII. A Crazy Quilt: The Multivalent Pattern of Meridian\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Black Women's Fiction in the 1970s\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52713333850392,"sku":"9780253208552","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/black-women-novelists-and-the-nationalist-aesthetic-paperback-softback-9780253208552","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}