Down from the Mountaintop: Black Women's Novels in the Wake of the Civil Rights Movement, 1966-1989
by Melissa Walker
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0300048556
- ISBN 13
- 9780300048551
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About This Item
First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is bound in gray cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. viii/226 pages.
"In the years since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, African-American women have contemplated the struggle for racial justice in an outpouring of novels. this book offers interpretations of 18 of these novels - including works by Margaret Walker, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange and others - examining how they relate to the movement, to the conditions that fostered it and to its failure to achieve educational, economic and social equality."
"In the years since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, African-American women have contemplated the struggle for racial justice in an outpouring of novels. this book offers interpretations of 18 of these novels - including works by Margaret Walker, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange and others - examining how they relate to the movement, to the conditions that fostered it and to its failure to achieve educational, economic and social equality."
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- Bookseller
- Palimpsest Scholarly Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2172
- Title
- Down from the Mountaintop: Black Women's Novels in the Wake of the Civil Rights Movement, 1966-1989
- Author
- Melissa Walker
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0300048556
- ISBN 13
- 9780300048551
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- African-American History/Culture, US History, US Literature
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