Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist
by Margot Strickland
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"Using statistical, experimental, and ethnographic methods Barbershops, Bibles, and BET offers a new perspective on the way public opinion and ideologies are formed at the grassroots level. The book makes an important contribution to our understanding of black politics by shifting the focus from the influence of national elites in opinion formation to the influence of local elites and people in daily interaction with each other. Arguing that African Americans use community dialogue to show more jointly develop understandings of their collective political interests, Harris-Lacewell identifies for political ideologies that constitute the framework of contemporary black political thought: black Nationalism, black Feminism, black Conservatism, and Liberal Integrationism. These ideologies, the book posits, help African Americans to understand persistent social and economic inequality, to identify the significance of race in that inequality, and to devise strategies for overcoming it."--Jacket. show lessTags
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1977
- People/Characters
- Angela Thirkell; Lance Thirkell; Colin MacInnes
- Important places
- Kensington; Australia; Chelsea, London, England, UK; London, England, UK
- Epigraph
- This is all a fairy tale, and ... you are not to believe a word of it, even if it is true.
-- Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies - Dedication
- To Simon and Diana
- First words
- In the autumn of 1960, an elderly lady with china-blue eyes, cool judgment and a sharp tongue, lay dying of a rare blood disease in a nursing-home in Surrey.
- Quotations
- Angela had been friendly with the Observer's film critic C. A. Lejeune during and since the war, when they had both been in Beaconsfield. The Thirkell novels were Caroline Lejeune's favourite bedside reading, and when the two... (show all) women met, they 'went to Barsetshire'.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Yes," she reflected, "a very happy childhood -- I haven't a single complaint or criticism to make of my early years."
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- English
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