Walker, Melissa.

Down from the mountaintop : Black women's novels in the wake of the civil rights movement, 1966-1989 / Melissa Walker. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c1991. - viii, 226 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219) and index.

0300048556 (alk. paper)


American fiction--Afro-American authors--History and criticism.
Women and literature--History--United States--20th century.
American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Civil rights movements in literature.
Afro-American women in literature.
Afro-Americans in literature.

PS374.N4 / W35 1991

813/.54099287