From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison : Ethics in Modern and Postmodern American Narrative

, by Folks, Jeffrey J.

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ISBN: 9780820451053 | 0820451053
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 5/1/2001

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Jeffrey J. Folks is Professor of Literature at Doshisha University in Japan.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

(18)

``Last Call to the West'': Richard Wright's The Color Curtain

(12)

James Agee's Quest for Forgiveness in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

(14)

James Agee's Fashioning of Guilt: The Morning Watch

(12)

Ernest J. Gaines's Ideal of Community in A Gathering of Old Men

(10)

A Meditation on History and Ethics: Ernest J. Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying

(12)

Henry Roth's Narratives of Captivity

(16)

Physical Disability and the Sacramental Community in Flannery O'Connor's Everything That Rises Must Converge

(12)

Race, Class, and Redemption in Walker Percy's The Last Gentleman

107

(14)

The Risks of Membership: Richard Ford's The Sportswriter

121

(14)

Representing the Subaltern Figure in William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner and Thomas Keneally's The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

135

(16)

Obligations of the Dispossessed: The Ethical Vision of Kaye Gibbons's Ellen Foster and A Virtuous Woman

151

(12)

Language and Cultural Authority in Toni Morrison's Jazz

163

(16)

Bibliography

179

(14)

Index

193

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From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison : Ethics in Modern and Postmodern American Narrative

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