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Break Any Woman Down Dana Johnson

Break Any Woman Down By Dana Johnson

Break Any Woman Down by Dana Johnson


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Dana Johnson explores race, identity, and alienation with unflinching honesty and vibrant language. Hip and seductive, her stories often feature women discovering their identities through sexual and emotional intimacy with the men in their lives. Dana Johnson has an intuitive sense of character and a gift for creating authentic voices.

Break Any Woman Down Summary

Break Any Woman Down: Stories by Dana Johnson by Dana Johnson

In Break Any Woman Down, Dana Johnson explores race, identity, and alienation with unflinching honesty and vibrant language. Hip and seductive, her stories often feature women discovering their identities through sexual and emotional intimacy with the men in their lives.

In the title story, La Donna is a black stripper whose white boyfriend, an actor in adult movies, insists that she stop stripping. In Melvin in the Sixth Grade, eleven-year-old Avery has a crush on a white boy from Oklahoma who, like Avery, is an outsider in their suburban Los Angeles school. Markers is as much about a woman's relationship with her mother as it is about the dissolution of her relationship with an older Italian man.

Dana Johnson has an intuitive sense of character and a gift for creating authentic voices. She effortlessly captures the rhythmic vernaculars of Los Angeles, the American South, and various immigrant communities as she brings to life the sometimes heavyhearted, but always persevering, souls who live there.

About Dana Johnson

Dana Johnson is an associate professor of English in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Elsewhere, California: A Novel.

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NPB9780820344492
9780820344492
0820344494
Break Any Woman Down: Stories by Dana Johnson by Dana Johnson
New
Paperback
University of Georgia Press
2012-10-15
168
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