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Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan’s third novel, was an instant popular success when it was first published in 1992.The book found wide acceptance, both critical and public, largely because of ...
Sep 11, 2024 · The events of Waiting to Exhale are told in the first person through Savannah and Robin, and in the third person from the viewpoints of Bernadine and Gloria. The shifts in point of view help the ...
Sep 11, 2024 · Review of Waiting to Exhale, by Terry McMillan. Whole Earth Review 78 (Spring, 1993): 84. Johnson praises Waiting to Exhale as a “wonderful mix of black, urban, female voices”; however, she ...
Sep 11, 2024 · Waiting to Exhale is an odd yet brilliant fictional representation of issues and concerns affecting middle-class African American women in the late twentieth century. The novel is odd in that the ...
Sep 11, 2024 · "Waiting to Exhale" can facilitate an insightful dialogue about the tension between white and African American cultures. The group might explore potential solutions to issues of alienation ...
Waiting to Exhale was the first of McMillan’s novels to achieve “cross-over” success beyond an African American readership. Professional women were intrigued by McMillan’s depiction of ...
Review of Waiting to Exhale, by Terry McMillan. Whole Earth Review 78 (Spring, 1993): 84. Johnson praises Waiting to Exhale as a “wonderful mix of black, urban, female voices”; however, she ...
Waiting to Exhale is McMillan’s third published novel. Mama, her first, was published in 1987, and Disappearing Acts, her second, was published in 1989. Unlike other black women writers whose ...
Waiting to Exhale is both descriptive and prescriptive, an attempt to diagnose and to cure. The alternating voices in McMillan’s book give substance and reality to her characters. First-person ...
Waiting to Exhale combines two of McMillan’s earlier fictional concerns. She creates credible black women and also includes a variety of black male characters. Some of these, such as Bernadine ...
