Search results for ""author eve dunbar""
Temple University Press,U.S. Black Regions of the Imagination: African American Writers between the Nation and the World
Establishing an imaginative space for blackness, four mid-century American writers resist literary segregation
£62.10
University of Minnesota Press Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction
Radical Black feminist refusal through the works of mid-twentieth-century African American women writers Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction offers new and insightful readings of African American women's writings in the 1930s1950s, illustrating how these writers centered Black women's satisfaction as radical resistance to the false and incomplete promise of liberal racial integration. Eve Dunbar examines the writings of Ann Petry, Dorothy West, Alice Childress, and Gwendolyn Brooks to show how these women explored self-fulfillment over normative and sanctioned models of national belonging. Paying close attention to literary moments of disruption, miscommunication, or confusion rather than ease, assimilation, or mutual understanding around race and gender, Dunbar tracks these writers' dissatisfaction with American race relations. She shows how Petry, West, Childress, and Brooks redeploy the idea of monstrous work to offer potential modalities for registering Black women's capaci
£20.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Black Regions of the Imagination: African American Writers between the Nation and the World
Establishing an imaginative space for blackness, four mid-century American writers resist literary segregation
£24.29
