Organization as Liberation in Toni Cade Bambara's "The Salt Eaters.".

Mbalia, Doreatha Drummond

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ERIC Number: EJ455250

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Publication Date: 1992

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Organization as Liberation in Toni Cade Bambara's "The Salt Eaters."

Mbalia, Doreatha Drummond

Western Journal of Black Studies, v16 n1 p6-13 Spr 1992

Toni Cade Bambara's novel "The Salt Eaters" is art colored by social responsibility as the author attempts to give her African-American audience a sense of their history and their identity so they can value and accept collective work and responsibility. The novel's strengths and thematic weaknesses are discussed. (SLD)

Descriptors: Authors, Black Culture, Black History, Blacks, Economically Disadvantaged, Individualism, Literary Criticism, Literary Styles, Novels, Organization, Racial Discrimination, Racial Identification, Social Class

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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