'High-Topped Shoes' and Other Signifiers of Race, Class, Gender and Ethnicity in Selected Fiction by William Faulkner and Toni Morrison [Paperback]

High-topped Shoes and Other Signifiers of Race, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity in Selected Fiction by William Faulkner and Toni Morrisonexamines the means through which individuals, historically, have constructed their social and personal identities. Focusing primarily on selected fiction by William Faulkner and Toni Morrison, the work explores the myths embedded in historical and modern artifacts, such as the high-topped shoe and high-heeled slipper, and their impact on the construction of ethnic and gender roles. Combining anthropology and women's studies, this work is an interesting new study of race, gender, class, and ethnicity in literature.Tommie Lee Jacksonis Professor of English at St. Cloud State University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the author ofThe Existential Fiction of Ayi Kwei Armah, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartrealso from the University Press of America andAn Invincible Summer: Female Diasporan Authors.

Chapter 1 Acknowledgements
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 1. High-topped Shoes : Signifiers of Race, Class, and Gender
Chapter 5 2. Wedded Imagery in Fitzgerald'sTender Is the Night, Faulkner'sAbsalom, Absalom!, and Morrison'sParadiseandLove
Chapter 6 3. What's in a Name? : The Custom Among African Americans of Name Bestowal in Selected Literature
Chapter 7 4. The Influence of African American Folktales on Selected Literature by Faulkner and Morrison
Chapter 8 5. Snopesism as a Form of Tricksterism
Chapter 9 6. The Elliptical Narrative Prose Style of Faulkner and Morrison
Chapter 10 7. Conclusion
Chapter 11 References
Chapter 12 Bibliography
Chapter 13 Index