Integrating the Narrative: Ellen Douglas's Can't Quit You Baby and the Sub-Genre of the Kitchen Drama
This article examines Ellen Douglas's novel Can't Quit You, Baby, which can be situated in the sub-genre of the kitchen drama, focusing on the relationships between housewives and their black housekeepers in the South, at the crossroads of the issues of race, class and gender, as they come...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès
2011-11-01
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| Series: | Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/2315 |
| Summary: | This article examines Ellen Douglas's novel Can't Quit You, Baby, which can be situated in the sub-genre of the kitchen drama, focusing on the relationships between housewives and their black housekeepers in the South, at the crossroads of the issues of race, class and gender, as they come out in the privileged locus of the meeting between black and white women, the kitchen. Douglas's novel transcends the convention of the genre through an innovating narrative perspective and through her style. |
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| ISSN: | 2108-6559 |