The Darling (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Russell Banks
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: From the 1960's to 2001
- Setting: Liberia, Ghana, and the United States
- Principal Characters: Hannah (Musgrave) Sundiata, Woodrow Sundiata, Charles Taylor, Samuel Doe, Sam Clement, Zackary Procter, Jeannine, Richard Satterthwaite, Dillon Sundiata, William, Carol, Dr. Bernard Musgrave
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, 1970’s, Africa or Africans, Class conflict, Colonialism, Protests or demonstrations, Class consciousness, Violence, Vietnam War, Upper classes, Idealism, Civil wars, Animals, Activism
- Locales: Ghana, United States, Liberia
Throughout his literary career, Russell Banks has been writing fiction that explores the dynamic interactions between place, sex, race, and social class in the formation of individual identity and fate: imaginative inquiries always set against larger political patterns of modern history. With his tenth novel, The Darling, Banks pursues his characteristic concerns through his fictive narrator-protagonist Hannah Musgrave, the daughter of a famous pediatrician and antiwar activist clearly modeled on Dr. Benjamin Spock, who authored Baby and Child Care in 1946; this...
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