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About 327 pages (97,942 words) in 20 products |
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Gayl Jones | | Birth Date: |
November 23, 1949 | | Nationality: |
American | | Ethnicity: |
African American | | Gender: |
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 Biography of Gayl Jones
4,365 words, approx. 15 pages
 Though not one of the best-known of contemporary black writers, Gayl Jones can claim distinction as the teller of the most intense tales. Her stories are powerful depictions of madness and violence in the lives of black people, especially women. And... summary from source:
Biography of Gayl Jones
3,049 words, approx. 10 pages
Gayl Jones, a contemporary African American writer, explores in her novels the effects that racism and sexual abuse have on successive generations of black women. She says of her own writing, "I am interested principally in the psychology of... 
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 Gayl Jones Quotes
30 words, approx. 1 pages
 When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Gayl Jones Information
229 words, approx. 1 pages
Gayl Jones (Born November 23, 1949)[[1]] Is an African American writer from Lexington, Kentucky. After earning the Frances Steloff Award for Fiction while attending Connecticut College, she graduated with a Masters in creative writing at Brown...
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 The Washington Post An Everywoman In Gayl Jones
02/27/1998: 883 words, approx. 3 pages The stranger-than-fiction saga of Gayl Jones is so bizarre, I didn't know what to make of it. Then, my friend Shawnn -- who was assaulted by a man with whom she'd become involved -- got me thinking about layers. These layers are always... summary from source:
Michigan Quarterly Review Gayl Jones and the postmodern moment
04/01/2001: 2,202 words, approx. 7 pages Mosquito. By Gayl Jones. Boston: Beacon Press, 1999. Pp. 616. $28.50 hb; $18 pb. I gots to drive my truck. I gots to. Even if he don't think that's the essence of who I am or who I could be. 'Cause that's something...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Naomi Morgenstern
10,975 words, approx. 37 pages
In the following essay, Morgenstern discusses the role of trauma and repetitive accounts in Jones's Corregidora and Toni Morrison’s Beloved.
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Critical Essay by Janelle Wilcox
10,381 words, approx. 35 pages
In the following essay, Wilcox, a professor at Washington State University, applies Michel Foucault’s theories on discourse to analyze Jones's use of silence in Eva's Man.
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Critical Essay by Madhu Dubey
9,991 words, approx. 33 pages
In the essay below, Dubey analyzes Jones's use of a matrilineal structure to achieve meaning in her novels Corregidora and Song of Anninho.
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