TY - BOOK AU - Reames,Kelly Lynch TI - Women and Race in Contemporary U. S. Writing: From Faulkner to Morrison T2 - American Literature Readings in the 21st Century Ser SN - 9780230603356 AV - PN843-PN846HM401-128 U1 - 810.9355 PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - African American women in literature KW - American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism KW - Interracial friendship in literature KW - Race in literature KW - Women in literature KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- 1 Beyond the "Slut" Look: From Incitement to Identity -- 2 Girls' Style as a Point of Convergence -- 3 "Where It's At": Rhetorical Performances of East Side High -- 4 "If You Dress Like This, Then You're Like That": Positions and Recognitions -- 5 "I Dress the Way I Feel": Image, Agency, and Power -- 6 Dressing the Part: Deep Surfaces and Contingent Conclusions -- Notes -- References N2 - A study of how contemporary writers have imagined possibilities for relationships between African American and white women that overcome the stereotypical patterns of racism UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/buse-ebooks/detail.action?docID=308400 ER -