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Advancing Sisterhood?: Interracial Friendships in Contemporary Southern Fiction

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In Advancing Sisterhood?: Interracial Friendships In Contemporary Southern Fiction, Sharon Monteith offers an original and enlightening survey of how prevalent specific relationships between black and white women in the south have emerged in the novels of Ellen Douglas, Kaye Gibbons, Connie Mae Fowler, Lane von Herzen, Ellen Gilchrist, Carol Dawson, and others. Monteith underscores that interracial friendships have become an accepted topic for white women writers. Highly recommended for students of American literature, race relations, and Southern cultural norms, Advancing Sisterhood? also explores childhood female relationships and considers recent ecocriticism and its role in charting the female southern landscape as depicted in contemporary literature.