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Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 613
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English
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Nikki Giovanni began to write poetry in the 1960s when she was associated with the radical Black Arts Movement. She has since won a large popular following of a kind rarely achieved by poets in American society. Many ordinary people read, memorize, and recite her work, and her public readings are invariably well attended. Indeed, Giovanni's popular success has perhaps caused academic critics to underestimate the depth and breadth of her work. A strong-minded...
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Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 290
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English
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Treats the style, theme, and technique in the novels, and in the plays, attention is given to the common themes of illusion versus reality and the search for identity.
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Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 582
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English
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Discusses Ellison's "Invisible Man" and also comments on his nonfiction.
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Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 386
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English
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Traces briefly the author's life, examines his novels and other writings, and establishes his place in American literature.
7) Alice Walker
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Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 596
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English
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Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the American Book Award for her novel The Color Purple, Alice Walker is indisputably one of the leading figures of contemporary African American literature. Author of four novels, two collections of short stories, two collections of essays, and four volumes of poetry, Walker writes of African American women's discovery of their inner selves, selves from which they draw the strength necessary for survival....
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Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 559
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English
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Twayne's United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works. Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an author's work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volume addresses readers ranging from advanced high school students...
13) Ann Petry
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Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 667
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English
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The fiction of African-American author Ann Petry confronts prejudices of race, sex, and class and marks the ways the American dream of success and plenitude haunts, and ultimately mocks, those people who fail to achieve it. Petry calls her characters "the walking wounded." Betrayal, deep-seated anger, and murderous violence recur throughout her three novels, The Street (1946), Country Place (1947), and The Narrows (1953). Written midcentury, Petry's...