Black Girl / White Girl
de Joyce Carol Oates Harper Perennial Edition, 2007, 272 p. Fifteen years after the mysterious death of Minette Swift a 19-year-old black girl enrolled as a scholarship student in an exclusive liberal arts college her former roommate Genna begins an unofficial enquiry into the traumatic event. In reconstructing the girls' tumultuous freshman year at the college, Genna is led also to reconstruct her life as the daughter of a famous radical-hippie-lawyer of the 1960s among whose clients were anti-Vietnam war protesters wanted by the FBI. What follows is a gripping and personal portrayal of 'black' and 'white' in America in the years of crisis following the end of the Vietnam War, and the ignominious exposure and fall of President Richard Nixon. |
Oates Joyce Carol.
Black Girl / White Girl.
Harper Perennial Edition, 2007, 272 p.
Titre : | Black Girl / White Girl |
Auteurs : | Joyce Carol Oates, Auteur |
Type de document : | texte imprimé |
Editeur : | Harper Perennial Edition, 2007 |
ISBN/ISSN : | 978-0-00-723279-6 |
Format : | 272 p. |
Langues: | Anglais |
Index. décimale : | R(A) (Romans en anglais) |
Descripteurs : |
Motbis 20e siècle / Etats-Unis / littérature |
Résumé : |
Fifteen years after the mysterious death of Minette Swift a 19-year-old black girl enrolled as a scholarship student in an exclusive liberal arts college her former roommate Genna begins an unofficial enquiry into the traumatic event. In reconstructing the girls' tumultuous freshman year at the college, Genna is led also to reconstruct her life as the daughter of a famous radical-hippie-lawyer of the 1960s among whose clients were anti-Vietnam war protesters wanted by the FBI.
What follows is a gripping and personal portrayal of 'black' and 'white' in America in the years of crisis following the end of the Vietnam War, and the ignominious exposure and fall of President Richard Nixon. |
Nature du document : | fiction |
Genre : | roman |
Date de création : | 03/01/2005 |
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Cote | Section | Localisation | Code-barres | Disponibilité |
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R(A) OAT | Romans en anglais | C.D.R. | 016607 | Disponible |