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Broken silences : interviews with Black and White women writers by Shirley Marie Jordan is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Broken silences : interviews with Black and White women writers about?
From Publishers Weekly In these 20 interviews with women writers of fiction, Jordan, who teaches at Hampton University in Virginia, attempts to plumb the relations between black and white women in fiction and in life, and to explore the creative process. Although the book suffers from lengthy discussions of somewhat obscure work, the interviewees, most of whom have portrayed female characters of a race other than their own, offer intriguing, often conflicting observations about the primacy of race, gender or class. Kaye Gibbons ( Ellen Foster ) suggests that rural locations offer commonality to black and white Southern women; Marita Golden ( Long Distance Life ) observes that white writers emphasize female beauty while black writers focus on character. This book may be a useful supplement to literature courses. From Library Journal The message derived from the candid and articulate women interviewed here is, as Belva Plain states, "you learn as you live together." Editor Jordan (Hampton Univ., Virginia) has opened a dialog on writing and race relations by publishing these interviews with 20 significant contemporary black and white women writers, from Alice Childress and Joyce Carol
Who reads Broken silences : interviews with Black and White women writers?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Shirley Marie Jordan
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Published
- 1995
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780813519326
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, Memoir
