After the Pain

Critical Essays on Gayl Jones

268 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

As a poet, playwright, novelist, short-story writer, and critic, Gayl Jones has always resisted labels in her quest to find a liberating voice for black women and herself. With a poet’s lyricism and a musician’s ear for rhythm, she continually seeks new ways to confront the barriers, traumas, insecurities, and prejudices oppressing black women, and, by extension, all women. After the Pain: Critical Essays on Gayl Jones is the first comprehensive collection of essays dedicated solely to the exploration of Jones’s work. Ranging from analyses of her use of language and music to reevaluations of her representation of sexuality and gender roles to examinations of the oft-overlooked connections between Latin America and African Americans, each of these essays investigates Jones’s desire to continually complicate the process of identity formation.

• Reihe: African-American Literature and Culture
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein 1900 bis 2000
• ISBN: 9780820478388
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 09.06.2006
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York
• Band herausgegeben von: Fiona Mills, Keith B. Mitchell