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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 ...
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 ...
Sep 11, 2024 · Discussion groups may benefit from comparing "Waiting to Exhale" with an earlier work in African American literature. Examining themes of feminism and gender relations could be particularly ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
