Black Girl / White Girl
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Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Publisher | Ecco |
Publication date | 2 October 2006 |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | 288 pp (first edition, hardback) |
ISBN | 978-0-06-112564-5 (first edition, hardback) |
OCLC | 69734673 |
813/.54 22 | |
LC Class | PS3565.A8 B46 2006 |
Preceded by | Missing Mom |
Followed by | The Gravedigger's Daughter |
Black Girl / White Girl is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates first published in 2006. It takes the form of an untitled 300 page manuscript written in 1990 by Generva Meade, a white historian, who truthfully recounts the events which happened during her first year at a prestigious liberal college in 1974–75, and Meade's own paternal family history which uncomfortably spans the gap between a proud history of progressive thinking and subsequent revolutionary and violent ideas. The action on the stage is played by a Black conservative Christian who reluctantly attends the school on a scholarship and encounters racial discrimination there. Subsequent events and her own disintegrating mental health lead to a personal and institutional tragedy.
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