Ripe Plums and Pine Trees: Using Metaphor to Tell Stories of Violence in the Works of Gloria Naylor and Charles Chesnutt Export

@article{citeulike:1721250, abstract = {Argues that Naylor's use of metaphor to describe violent acts in her texts in a manner that enables readers who might otherwise resist reading such graphic portrayals to read on is "inherited from her literary ancestor Charles Chesnutt".}, author = {Stokes, Karah}, booktitle = {The Critical Response to Gloria Naylor}, citeulike-article-id = {1721250}, editor = {Felton, Sharon and Loris, Michelle C.}, keywords = {authors, brewster, criticism, felton\_loris, literary, naylor, rape, violence, wbp}, pages = {199--210}, posted-at = {2007-10-02 21:46:30}, priority = {0}, publisher = {Greenwood Press, Westport}, title = {Ripe Plums and Pine Trees: Using Metaphor to Tell Stories of Violence in the Works of Gloria Naylor and Charles Chesnutt}, year = {1997} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1721250 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1721250 N2 - Argues that Naylor's use of metaphor to describe violent acts in her texts in a manner that enables readers who might otherwise resist reading such graphic portrayals to read on is "inherited from her literary ancestor Charles Chesnutt". EP - 210 TI - Ripe Plums and Pine Trees: Using Metaphor to Tell Stories of Violence in the Works of Gloria Naylor and Charles Chesnutt PB - Greenwood Press, Westport T2 - The Critical Response to Gloria Naylor SP - 199 KW - authors KW - brewster KW - criticism KW - felton_loris KW - literary KW - naylor KW - rape KW - violence KW - wbp AU - Stokes, Karah A2 - Felton, Sharon A2 - Loris, Michelle PY - 1997/// ER -