In this Book
- Wrestling Angels into Song: The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Pennsylvania Press
- Series: Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction
summary
Herman Beavers offers a richly nuanced study of Ernes J. Gaines, James Alan McPherson, and Ralph Ellison as writers who have found ways to invest circumstances that might otherwise be seen as sites of squalor or despair with a sense of cultural vitality. He examines the Ellisonian themes and motifs the two later writers take up in their fiction, and looks at Ellison's influence on the strategies they enact to construct themselves as American writers.
For Beavers, the fictions of Ellison, Gaines, and McPherson are peopled by characters who value acts of storytelling and whose stories frame a fuller, more complex, and more inclusive version of American identity than those the dominant white culture has allowed.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-8
- Part I: Innovations of Kin
- Part II: Trueblood Echoing
- Part III: The Lower Frequencies
- Conclusion
- pp. 229-234
- Bibliography
- pp. 257-266
Additional Information
ISBN
9781512800852
Related ISBN(s)
9780812231502
MARC Record
OCLC
44960292
Pages
296
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
1995