Melissa Walker
Down from the Mountaintop: Black Women's Novels in the Wake of the Civil Rights Movement, 1966-1989.
Yale University Press, 1991. First printing. 0300048556 viii/226 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is bound in gray cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
"In the years since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, African-American women have contemplated the struggle for racial justice in an outpouring of novels. this book offers interpretations of 18 of these novels - including works by Margaret Walker, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange and others - examining how they relate to the movement, to the conditions that fostered it and to its failure to achieve educational, economic and social equality."