Break Any Woman Down - Couverture souple

Johnson, Dana

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0820344494 ISBN 13 : 9780820344492

Editeur : University of Georgia Press, 2012

Synopsis

In Break Any Woman Down, Dana Johnson explores race, identity, and alienation with unflinching honesty and vibrant language. Hip and seductive, her stories often feature women discovering their identities through sexual and emotional intimacy with the men in their lives. In the title story, La Donna is a black stripper whose white boyfriend, an actor in adult movies, insists that she stop stripping. In "Melvin in the Sixth Grade," eleven-year-old Avery has a crush on a white boy from Oklahoma who, like Avery, is an outsider in their suburban Los Angeles school. "Markers" is as much about a woman's relationship with her mother as it is about the dissolution of her relationship with an older Italian man. Dana Johnson has an intuitive sense of character and a gift for creating authentic voices. She effortlessly captures the rhythmic vernaculars of Los Angeles, the American South, and various immigrant communities as she brings to life the sometimes heavyhearted, but always persevering, souls who live there.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

DANA JOHNSON is a professor of English in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Elsewhere, California: A Novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Georgia Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0820344494
• ISBN 13: 9780820344492
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 168
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• Personne responsable: non disponible