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Wrestling Angels Into Song: The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson

Wrestling Angels Into Song: The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson

Beavers, Herman

Hardcover

Series: Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction

General Fiction

ISBN10: 0812231503
ISBN13: 9780812231502
Publisher: Univ Of Pennsylvania Pr
Published: May 29 1995
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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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