Bøger af Nancy J. Peterson

"Beloved" won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1987, and is the most-often taught novel. This work demonstrates the necessity of linking character analysis to texts' themes, issues and ideas, and encourages students to embrace the complexity of literary characters and the texts in which they appear.

Addresses the postmodernist debate over the possibility and relevance of documentary and official histories. This work examines the struggles toward collective memory in a wealth of contemporary women's writing.