Twentieth-century sentimentalism [electronic resource] : narrative appropriation in American literature / Jennifer A. Williamson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Standing together, side by side: Grace Lumpkin's To make my bread -- Not plough-shares but people: Josephine Johnson's Now in November -- His home is not the land: caretaking, domesticity, and gender in John Steinbeck's The grapes of wrath -- Forged in a crucible of suffering: Margaret Walker's Jubilee -- Octavia Butler's Kindred: my face too was wet with tears -- Toni Morrison's Beloved: feeling how it must have felt to her mother.

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