Melanctha Summary
Gertrude Stein

Melanctha Summary

Gertrude Stein's "Melanctha" has been a landmark of literary modernism since its first printing. The author broke radically new ground with both her subject matter and style. She focused on emotional process almost to the exclusion of action and other conventional plot structures, and she chose to people her story with black characters at a time when other white writers wouldn't do so and when few black writers had the opportunity to publish...

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