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The relationship between humans and their gods has always been a primary theme in literature. Until recently, however, books in the American literary canon have rarely been concerned with any supernatural beings other than the Judeo-Christian god. In this book Bonnie Winsbro moves beyond that narrow focus to examine the power of the supernatural in the works of six ethnic writers: Lee Smith's Oral History, Louise Erdrich's Tracks, Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, Gloria Naylor's Mama Day, Toni Morrison's Beloved, and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts.…
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1 edition- Other · English · 1993University of Massachusetts Press · 218 pages · 9780870238796
American literatureEthnic groups in literatureHistoryHistory and criticismSupernatural in literatureWomen and literatureWomen authorsAuteurs issus des minorites