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Provides an introduction to James McBride and the critical discussions surrounding his work.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mickle, Mildred R. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ipswich, MA : Amenia, NY : EBSCO Information Services, Incorporated ; Grey House Publishing, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Critical insights.
Subjects:
McBride, James, > 1957- > Criticism and interpretation.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Historical fiction, American > History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.
McBride, James, > 1957- > Criticism.
Historical fiction > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • About This Volume
  • The Author
  • Biographical Sketch: James McBride
  • On James McBride
  • Critical Contexts
  • James McBride's The Good Lord Bird: A Pluralist Approach
  • The Critique of History in James McBride's Works
  • On a Forgotten Front: James McBride's Miracle at St. Anna and the Fiction of the Italian Campaign of World War II
  • Reading James McBride: A Literature Review of Secondary Sources about James McBride and His Writings
  • Critical Readings
  • James McBride's The Color of Water: Some Reasons for Its Popularity
  • The Color of Still Waters: McBride, Obama, and the Fierce Urgency of the New Now
  • Superstition's Role in Shaping Identity throughout History and the Film Adaptation of James McBride's Miracle at St. Anna
  • Learning the Code: A Deconstruction of Archetypes of Oppression, Transformation, and Freedom in James McBride's Song Yet Sung
  • James McBride on The Good Lord Bird: Evidence from Interviews
  • James McBride's The Good Lord Bird: Assessments by Early Reviewers
  • James McBride's The Good Lord Bird and the Peculiar Legacies of Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner
  • Unlikely Witnesses to Convulsive and Consternating History: The Narrators of James McBride's The Good Lord Bird and Thomas Berger's Little Big Man
  • James McBride and James Brown: The Varied Appeal of Kill 'Em and Leave
  • James McBride's Short Fiction: "Father Abe"
  • Resources
  • Select Chronology of James McBride's Life
  • Works by James McBride
  • Bibliography
  • About the Editor
  • Contributors
  • Index.