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Author Romero, Channette.

Title Activism and the American novel : religion and resistance in fiction by women of color / Channette Romero.

Publication Info. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 217 pages)
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Summary "Since the 1980s, many activists and writers have turned from identity politics toward ethnic religious traditions to rediscover and reinvigorate their historic role in resistance to colonialism and oppression. In her examination of contemporary fiction by women of color--including Toni Morrison, Ana Castillo, Toni Cade Bambara, Louise Erdrich, and Leslie Marmon Silko--Channette Romero considers the way these novels newly engage with Vodun, Santería, Candomblé, and American Indian traditions. Critical of a widespread disengagement from civic participation and of the contemporary novel's disconnection from politics, this fiction attempts to transform the novel and the practice of reading into a means of political engagement and an inspiration for social change."--Project Muse.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Searching for relations -- Reconstituting the public sphere -- Spiritual temporalities and histories: Cristina Garcia and Leanne Howe -- Rewriting America's exceptionalism: Toni Morrison -- Post-civil rights community: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, and Ana Castillo -- Indigenous sovereignties: Leslie Marmon Silko and Louise Erdrich -- Conclusion: Toward a literary activism.
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Subject American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- Women authors.
American fiction -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- Minority authors.
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Women and literature.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Politics and literature.
Religion in literature.
Religion in literature.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9780813933283 (OCoLC)798615802
ISBN 9780813933306 (electronic book)
0813933307 (electronic book)
9780813933283
0813933285
9780813933290
0813933293
Standard No. 9786613888433