{"title": "From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison", "covers": [4527847], "subject_places": ["Southern States", "United States"], "subjects": ["African Americans in literature", "Postmodernism (Literature)", "Intellectual life", "History and criticism", "Ethics in literature", "Race in literature", "Modernism (Literature)", "Narration (Rhetoric)", "African American authors", "American fiction", "In literature", "African Americans", "History", "Race dans la litt\u00e9rature", "Auteurs noirs am\u00e9ricains", "Histoire et critique", "Modernisme (Litt\u00e9rature)", "Postmodernisme (Litt\u00e9rature)", "Amerikaans", "Literature", "Ethiek", "Roman am\u00e9ricain", "Auteurs noirs am\u00e9ricains dans la litt\u00e9rature", "Morale dans la litt\u00e9rature", "Romans", "Narration", "\u00c9tats-Unis (Sud) dans la litt\u00e9rature", "American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century", "American fiction, african american authors, history and criticism", "Southern states, in literature"], "key": "/works/OL4111711W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL771078A"}}], "subject_times": ["20th century"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison: Ethics in Modern and Postmodern American Narrative studies the relationship of literature to contemporary ethical problems. Focusing on southern and Africa American writers, this book employs theoretical approaches from ethnicity studies, regional criticism, and postcolonial theory. It intends to insert a reading of ethics into the critical study of fictional and nonfictional narratives by Richard Wright, James Agee, Flannery O'Connor, Ernest J. Gaines, Walker Percy, Richard Ford, Toni Morrison, and other modern and postmodern American writers.\"--Jacket."}, "latest_revision": 8, "revision": 8, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T05:22:45.260384"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-02-24T09:43:11.372190"}}