Reclaiming Community in Contemporary African American Fiction FROM THE PUBLISHER
About the Author:Page, Philip is a professor of English at California State University at San Bernardino. He is the
author of Dangerous Freedom: Fusion and Fragmentation in Toni Morrison's Novels
SYNOPSIS
An examination of how the works of five African-American writers reveal the power of communal bonds in African-American life. Considers the works of Toni Cade Bambara, Ernest Gaines, Charles Johnson, Gloria Naylor, and John Edgar Wideman. Looks at novels that discover the complex bonds uniting and empowering black communities as a reaction against exclusion imposed by white America.