Bridging The Americas

A literary study of three important black women writers, this book examines the "inter-American" characteristics in the work of Marshall, Morrison, and Jones, including detailed discussions of Morrison's  Song of Solomon  and  Tar Baby , Jones's  Corregidora  and  Song of Anninho , and Marshall's  The Chose Place, The Timeless People . Coser defines the inter-American characteristics in these authors' novels as a connection based on a common African heritage an