Down from the Mountaintop: Black Women's Novels in the Wake of the Civil Rights Movement, 1966-89

by Melissa Walker

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In the years since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, African-American women have contemplated the struggle for racial justice in an outpouring of novels. this book offers interpretations of 18 of these novels - including works by Margaret Walker, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange and others - examining how they relate to the movement, to the conditions that fostered it and to its failure to achieve educational, economic and social equality.
  • ISBN10 0300054327
  • ISBN13 9780300054323
  • Publish Date 27 January 1993 (first published 20 February 1991)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 22 September 2006
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Yale University Press
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 248
  • Language English