Activism and the American Novel: Religion and Resistance in Fiction by Women of Color

Product description Review Activism and the American Novel provides an original and significant contribution to U.S. literary studies, ethnic studies, and feminist scholarship. Bringing a diverse group of ethnic authors into dialogue, Romero offers a more complicated multicultural focus and an important direction for twenty-first-century work.--AnaLouise Keating, Texas Woman's University, author of Teaching Transformation: Transcultural Classroom DialoguesThis book takes as its focus an important, powerful, widely read, and widely taught body of contemporary American literature by renowned women of color. The author's sophisticated grasp of spirituality and her thorough, nuanced knowledge of contemporary literature shine through the book. This is a valuable work by a gifted and insightful literary critic.--Joanna Brooks, San Diego State University, author of American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures About the Author Channette Romero is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Georgia.