{"product_id":"black-professional-women-in-recent-american-fiction","title":"Black Professional Women in Recent American Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e   The last three decades of the 20th century have marked the triumph of many black professional women against great odds in the workplace. Despite their success, few novels celebrate their accomplishments. Black middle-class professional women want to see themselves realistically portrayed by protagonists who work to achieve significant productivity and visibility in their careers, desire stability in their personal lives, aspire to accrue wealth, and live elegantly though not consumptively.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   The author contends that most recent American realistic fiction fails to represent black professional women protagonists performing their work effectively in the workplace. Identifying the extent to which contemporary novels satisfy the \"readerly desires\" of black middle-class women readers, this book investigates why the readership wants the texts, as well as what they prefer in the books they buy. It also examines the technical and cultural factors that contribute to the lack of books with self-empowered black professional female protagonists, and considers \u003ci\u003eThe Salt Eaters\u003c\/i\u003e by Toni Cade Bambara and \u003ci\u003eWaiting to Exhale\u003c\/i\u003e by Terry McMillan, two novels that function as significant markers in the development of contemporary black women writers' texts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54232155291992,"sku":"9780786417124","price":36.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780786417124_4fbaab06-3390-4d42-8176-5fa471e687e0.jpg?v=1764939647","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/black-professional-women-in-recent-american-fiction","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}