Wrestling Angels into Song : : The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson / / Herman Beavers.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Beavers, Herman,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. Relative Politics: The Literary Triumverate of Ralph Waldo Ellison, Ernest J. Gaines, and James Alan McPherson --; Chapter 2. The Possible in Things Unwritten: Kinship and Innovation in the Fictions of Ellison, Gaines, and McPherson --; Chapter 3. Tilling the Soil to Find Ourselves: Conversion, Labor, and [Re]membering in Gaines's Of Love and Dust and In My Father's House --; Chapter 4. "If It's Going To Be Any Good, It's Your Story"-. Legibility, [Un]speakability, and Historical Performance in McPherson's "A Solo Song: For Doc" --; Chapter 5. Voices from the Underground: Conspiracy, Intimacy, and Voice in Gaines's Fictions --; Chapter 6. "The Life of the Law Is Thus a Life of Art": Antagonism and Persuasion in McPherson's Legal Fiction Trilogy --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512800852; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512800852
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Herman Beavers.

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.