Wrestling Angels into Song

Wrestling Angels into Song
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 9781512800852
ISBN-13 : 1512800856
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Book Synopsis Wrestling Angels into Song by : Herman Beavers

Download or read book Wrestling Angels into Song written by Herman Beavers and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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