Reviews for Richard Yates

The average rating for Richard Yates based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-11-10 00:00:00 Gary Pyle Detailed (at times dry) analysis of Yates's work. Sometimes I wonder if the authors really meant some of the things these literary critics come up with. I mean particularly their analysis of his themes and there conjectures about underlying meanings in the text. I mean- some of it is obvious- based on our biographical knowledge of Yates (he draws on his childhood and his strained relationship with his kooky mother in many novels and books) but other things . . . It makes you wonder.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-05-10 00:00:00 Rachel Schecter I really enjoyed this book. If you're interested in Race,Class, and Gender studies within the context of Colonialism and it's impact on Western Medicine, this book is for you. It's original in the sense that the author uses well written and popular fiction books by famous women of color novelists. She looks at popular works such as Beloved, Bluest Eye, Salt Eater and Almanac of the Dead by analysing them within the context of the politics of medicine and history of oppression in Western Society. It's and engaging brilliant piece of work that I simply could not put down. Anyone who is a practitioner of Medicine (physicians as well as psychiatrists and pscyhoanalysts) who is sincerely interested in understanding the social impacts of institutionalized racism within Western Medical world will enjoy this work.