Domestic Abuse in the Novels of African American Women: A Critical Study

by Heather Duerre Humann

The literary tradition begun by Zora Neale Hurston in the 1930s has since flourished and taken new directions with a diverse body of fiction by more contemporary African-American women writers. This book examines the treatment of domestic violence in Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Gayl Jones's Corregidora, Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place and Linden Hills, Alice Walker's The Color Purple,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786479566
• ISBN13: 9780786479566
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher