by Melissa Walker · Yale University Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9780300048551
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«Down from the Mountaintop» is Melissa Walker's literary criticism essay, published by Yale University Press in hardback (226 pages, in English).
It analyzes novels by Black women writers published between 1966 and 1989, in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement in the US: how they relate to the movement, the conditions that encouraged it, and its failure to achieve educational, economic, and social equality. Includes Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Margaret Walker, and Ntozake Shange.
The first edition of 1991, published by Yale University Press, includes bibliography and index.
For readers interested in literary criticism, African American literature, and the history of the civil rights movement in the United States.
