Race, Gender, and Desire: Narrative Strategies in the Fiction of Toni Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker

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Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Producing the Signs of Race: Self-Fashioning in Black Aesthetic Discourse 2. Enabling Discourse for Afro-American Women Writers 3. Racial Discourse, Aesthetics, and Desire in Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Sula 4. Desire, Ambivalence, and Nationalist-Feminist Discourse in Bambara's Short Stories 5. History and Genealogy in Walker's The Third Life of Grange Copeland and Meridian 6. Rewriting and Revising in the 1980s: Tar Baby, The Color Purple, and The Salt Eaters Notes Bibliography Index

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