Domestic Abuse in the Novels of African American Women

The literary tradition begun by Zora Neale Hurston in the 1930s has since flourished and taken new directions with a diverse body of fiction by more contemporary African-American women writers. This book examines the treatment of domestic violence in Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God , Gayl Jones's Corregidora , Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place and Linden Hills , Alice Walker's The Color Purple , Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Love , Terry McMillan's Mama and A Day Late and a