Wrestling Angels into Song: The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson

 
“Time and again, Beavers takes up topics common to African American scholarship and manages to produce original readings showing how these topics intersect with or enable the writers’ persistent explorations into the meaning of democratic citizenship in what Ellison calls this ‘partially achieved nation.’” — Ashraf H. A. Rushdy, MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States