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Terry McMillan: A Critical Companion » Read Now
by Paulette Richards. 166 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The tremendous universal appeal of Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale took the book world by storm. With her third novel finally earning her the recognition and respect she richly deserved, Terry McMillan followed up with How Stella Got Her Groove Back, which continued to attract new and loyal fans...
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The tremendous universal appeal of Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale took the book world by storm. With her third novel finally earning her the recognition and respect she richly deserved, Terry McMillan followed up with How Stella Got Her Groove Back, which continued to attract new and loyal fans from all walks of life. In this critical work Richards places these inspirational works, as well as McMillan's earlier writings, in their deserved cultural and literary context. Richards offers an insightful analysis of McMillan's narrative technique, which, while having roots in the blues aesthetic, has created a voice that sings out to readers across the lines of sex and race. McMillan's stories are inhabited by strong, dynamic African American women, yet these characters have universal lessons of life and love to share with all readers who appreciate good fiction.
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Black American Women Fiction Writers ("Terry McMillan: B. 1951" begins on p. 117) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 220 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...43 Zora Neale Hurston 56 Gayl Jones 73 June Jordan 88 Nella Larsen 103 Terry McMillan 117 Paule Marshall 131 Toni Morrison 146 Gloria Naylor 164 Ann Petry 179...
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Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Terry McMillan" begins on p. 319) » Read Now
by Emmanuel S. Nelson. 530 pgs.

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During the last two decades, African American writers have emerged as a distinct and dominant force in world literature. This reference book offers lively, concise, and current information about the lives and imaginative works of 79 contemporary African American novelists. Each of the alphabetically...
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During the last two decades, African American writers have emerged as a distinct and dominant force in world literature. This reference book offers lively, concise, and current information about the lives and imaginative works of 79 contemporary African American novelists. Each of the alphabetically arranged entries begins with a biographical sketch of the author, offers a judicious critical assessment of the author's major works, provides a representative sample of the critical responses the author's books have elicited, and concludes with a selected bibliography that lists the author's publications as well as useful secondary material. Included are entries for major figures, such as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison, but many noteworthy young writers also receive the attention they deserve. Forty-one of the 79 writers discussed are women, and roughly a dozen of the novelists have identified themselves as gay, lesbian, or bisexual. Intended for students and advanced scholars alike, the volume is sophisticated yet accessible to a wide audience.
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Ancestral House: The Black Short Story in the Americas and Europe ("Quilting on the Rebound" by Terry McMillan begins on p. 374) » Read Now
by Charles H. Rowell. 606 pgs.

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The 70 uncut stories in this collection comprise 36 writers from the United States and 34 from Europe and the Americas. It is an anthology which exemplifies the diversity of writers from the African diaspora.
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Deposing the Man of the House: Terry McMillan Rewrites the Family, in MELUS » Read Now
by Janet Mason Ellerby. 13 pgs.

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...Deposing the man of the house: Terry McMillan rewrites the family by Janet Mason Ellerby In Terry McMillans first novel, Mama, Mildreds husband...St. Martins, 1991. 93-131...
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Terry McMillan Exhales and Inhales in a Revealing Interview, in Ebony » Read Now
by Laura B. Randolph. 4 pgs.

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...Terry McMillan exhales and inhales in a...embarrassing," novelist Terry McMillan says with a sigh, collapsing...11 years." That winter, McMillan also gave up alcohol...
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Waiting to Exhale, in Ebony » Read Now
by Lynn Norment. 5 pgs.

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...the holidays in the anticipated film adaptation of Terry McMillans enormously popular novel, Waiting To Exhale. The movie...know Forest Whitaker. She adds that she first...
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"'Waiting to Exhale' or 'Breath(ing)' Again": A Search for Identity, Empowerment, and Love in the 1990's, in Women and Language » Read Now
by Tina M. Harris, Patricia S. Hill. 13 pgs.

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...movie Waiting to Exhale. based on Terry McMillans novel of the same name, the film...of Waiting to Exhale, author Terry McMillans presence on the set...
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Exhaling!, in Ebony » Read Now
by Charles Whitaker. 9 pgs.

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...by Charles Whitaker TERRY McMillan shifts uneasily in the black desk...industrys scramble to find the next Terry McMillan. Without naming names this time...all, has been...
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What's behind the Big Boom In Black Women Writers, in Ebony » Read Now
by Charles Whitaker. 6 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Whitaker In the wake of author Terry McMillans success, a huge corps of female...audience. That was BTM: Before Terry McMillan. The force with which McMillans...went...
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'Stella' in South Africa: Still Looking for Her Groove: Best-Selling Author Terry McMillan Reveals New Details of Art-Imitating-Life Love Affair, in Ebony » Read Now
by Ebony. 3 pgs.

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...her groove: best-selling author Terry McMillan reveals new details of art-imitating-life...South Africa, best-selling author Terry McMillan (How Stella Got Her Groove...