Description: Examines how prevalent specific relationships between black and white women have become in the works of Ellen Douglas, Kaye Gibbons, Connie Mae Fowler, Lane von Herzen, Ellen Gilchrist, Carol Dawson, and others.
Brief description: SHARON MONTEITH is Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Cultural History at Nottingham Trent University. She is the author of Advancing Sisterhood? Interracial Friendships in Contemporary Southern Fiction (Georgia), coeditor of South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture and Gender and the Civil Rights Movement , and editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American South.
Review Quotes:
Monteith's study reads across race--still the great barrier in America--to elegantly explore transgressing friendships between black and white women. Advancing Sisterhood? is first-rate scholarship.
--Diane Roberts