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Wrestling Angels into Song : The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson / Herman Beavers.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Penn Studies in Contemporary American FictionPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©1995Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780812231502
  • 9781512800852
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  • PS3557.A355
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Relative Politics: The Literary Triumverate of Ralph Waldo Ellison, Ernest J. Gaines, and James Alan McPherson -- Chapter 2. The Possible in Things Unwritten: Kinship and Innovation in the Fictions of Ellison, Gaines, and McPherson -- Chapter 3. Tilling the Soil to Find Ourselves: Conversion, Labor, and [Re]membering in Gaines's Of Love and Dust and In My Father's House -- Chapter 4. "If It's Going To Be Any Good, It's Your Story"-. Legibility, [Un]speakability, and Historical Performance in McPherson's "A Solo Song: For Doc" -- Chapter 5. Voices from the Underground: Conspiracy, Intimacy, and Voice in Gaines's Fictions -- Chapter 6. "The Life of the Law Is Thus a Life of Art": Antagonism and Persuasion in McPherson's Legal Fiction Trilogy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter
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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Relative Politics: The Literary Triumverate of Ralph Waldo Ellison, Ernest J. Gaines, and James Alan McPherson -- Chapter 2. The Possible in Things Unwritten: Kinship and Innovation in the Fictions of Ellison, Gaines, and McPherson -- Chapter 3. Tilling the Soil to Find Ourselves: Conversion, Labor, and [Re]membering in Gaines's Of Love and Dust and In My Father's House -- Chapter 4. "If It's Going To Be Any Good, It's Your Story"-. Legibility, [Un]speakability, and Historical Performance in McPherson's "A Solo Song: For Doc" -- Chapter 5. Voices from the Underground: Conspiracy, Intimacy, and Voice in Gaines's Fictions -- Chapter 6. "The Life of the Law Is Thus a Life of Art": Antagonism and Persuasion in McPherson's Legal Fiction Trilogy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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