Publisher Description

From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison: Ethics in Modern and Postmodern American Narrative studies the relationship of literature to contemporary ethical problems. Focusing on southern and African American writers, this book employs theoretical approaches from ethnicity studies, regional criticism, and postcolonial theory. It intends to insert a reading of ethics into the critical study of fictional and nonfictional narratives by Richard Wright, James Agee, Flannery O'Connor, Ernest J. Gaines, Walker Percy, Richard Ford, Toni Morrison, and other modern and postmodern American writers.

Author Biography

The Author: Jeffrey J. Folks is Professor of Literature at Doshisha University in Japan. His publications include Southern Writers and the Machine: Faulkner to Percy (1993); Remembering James Agee, Second Edition (edited with David Madden, 1997); Southern Writers at Century's End (edited with James A. Perkins, 1997); The World Is Our Home: Society and Culture in Contemporary Southern Writing (edited with Nancy Summers Folks, 2000); and articles in numerous journals.

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