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"In the Light of Likeness-Transformed": The Literary Art of Leon Forrest

"In the Light of Likeness-Transformed": The Literary Art of Leon Forrest

Williams, Dana A.

Paperback

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0814257623
ISBN13: 9780814257623
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: Jan 29 2021
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In the Light of Likeness-Transformed, by Dana A. Williams, looks critically at the work of contemporary African American author Leon Forrest. Not only does she bring to the critical table a well-known but as yet understudied modernist author-an important endeavor in and of itself-but she also explores Forrest's novels' cultural dialogue with black ethnic culture and other African American authors, as well as provides in-depth readings of his prose and interpretations of his narrative style. Highly touted by both his literary forebear Ralph Ellison, who wrote the foreword to Forrest's first novel, and his literary contemporary Toni Morrison, who edited his first three novels and wrote the foreword to his third, Leon Forrest is among the most gifted African American writers of our time. Yet, he is also among our most difficult.

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