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African Americans in literature --- Fiction --- Novelists, American --- Authorship --- Gaines, Ernest J., --- Louisiana --- In literature.

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African Americans in literature --- Andrews, Raymond --- Reed, Ishmael --- Major, Clarence --- Gaines, Ernest J. --- Dixon, Melvin --- Wade, Brent James --- Wilson, August --- African American men in literature

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Herman Beavers offers a richly nuanced study of Ernes J. Gaines, James Alan McPherson, and Ralph Ellison as writers who have found ways to invest circumstances that might otherwise be seen as sites of squalor or despair with a sense of cultural vitality. He examines the Ellisonian themes and motifs the two later writers take up in their fiction, and looks at Ellison's influence on the strategies they enact to construct themselves as American writers.For Beavers, the fictions of Ellison, Gaines, and McPherson are peopled by characters who value acts of storytelling and whose stories frame a fuller, more complex, and more inclusive version of American identity than those the dominant white culture has allowed.

African Americans in literature. --- African American men --- African Americans --- American fiction --- Intellectual life. --- Intellectual life --- History and criticism. --- African American authors --- McPherson, James Alan, --- Gaines, Ernest J., --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Louisiana --- In literature.

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Communities in literature --- Gender identity in literature --- National characteristics [American ] in literature --- Multiculturalism in literature --- Gaines, Ernest J. --- Walker, Alice --- Beattie, Ann --- Updike, John --- Lee, Chang-rae --- Tan, Amy --- Chavez, Denise Elia --- Anaya, Rudolfo Alfonso

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"The first full realization of the family saga in the southern tradition, Stephens says, was George Washington Cable's The Grandissimes (1880)."--BOOK JACKET. "Stephens gives an extensive tour of twentieth-century authors who have used and further developed the southern family saga. He examines the works of writers such as T. S. Stribling and William Faulkner, who after the First World War reinterpreted the Civil War and its consequences in terms of a displaced inheritance; Caroline Gordon, Allen Tate, and Andrew Lytle, who built on the displacement motif to show family decline; Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, and Shirley Ann Grau, who in focusing on family stories transmitted by women explored implications of the matriarchal-patriarchal conflict resonating through generations; and Margaret Walker, Alex Haley, Ernest Gaines, and Toni Morrison, who showed the black family's struggle to find a place in history and later in memories of legendary Africa. Authors whom Stephens identifies as third-generation writers, such as Reynolds Price and Lee Smith, reach beyond history in their sagas to find moments of mythic vision, or they reduce family and public history to the pastless present of popular culture."--BOOK JACKET. "The literary tradition of the family saga thrives in the South today, Stephens says, because there exists an operative context in which to read the saga: namely, some version of providential order, which affords glimpses of purpose beyond the daily struggles of generations. The Family Saga in the South will make an inestimable contribution to understanding this vital tradition in southern letters while pointing the way for study of the genre in other cultures."--BOOK JACKET.

Domestic fiction [American ] --- Southern States --- History and criticism --- Southern States in literature --- Historical fiction [American ] --- Faulkner, William --- Criticism and interpretation --- Stribling, Thomas Sigismund --- Gordon, Caroline --- Tate, Allen --- Porter, Katherine Anne --- Welty, Eudora --- Walker, Margaret Abigail --- Haley, Alex Palmer --- Gaines, Ernest J. --- Morrison, Toni --- Smith, Lee --- Grau, Shirley Ann --- American fiction --- Domestic fiction, American --- Historical fiction, American --- Families in literature --- Family in literature --- In literature.