Speaking the grotesque: the short fiction of Gayl Jones.[Critical essay] From: The Southern Literary Journal | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2006 University of North Carolina Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Most [of the stories in White Rat] are written in first person and most deal with tensions in relationships, dynamics of psychology--psychic landscape--and ... the 'inward.'

--Gayl Jones in Rowell, "Interview," 49

Several reviewers of Gayl Jones's first two controversial novels, Corregidora (1975) and Eva's Man (1976), sought to interpret the books primarily in terms of their dark violent and even gothic qualities, muffling the formidable aesthetic dynamics of those works beneath the sensational, problematic vividness of their respective brutal episodes. (1) Critics of ...

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