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Summary. Disappearing Acts is an urban love story. The novel provides a realistic portrayal of a relationship between a black man and woman struggling to find their place in life separately and ...
When Disappearing Acts first appeared, many critics objected to the profanity it contains. In her effort to be authentic, McMillan sprinkles her characters’ dialogue with four-letter words ...
At the beginning of the novel, McMillan provides a monologue for each of the main characters, Zora and Franklin, setting them up as two people looking to better themselves. Both want success, and ...
Disappearing Acts is a narrative that works to undermine popular romance’s promise that two people in love can overcome the social conditions that might impede their happiness. When Zora meets ...
In Disappearing Acts, McMillan looks closely at the relational problems of a single and successful African American professional woman but leaves both protagonists’ development incomplete and ...
Disappearing Acts is McMillan’s second novel. Her first, Mama (1987), attracted considerable serious critical attention. With Disappearing Acts, McMillan took another step away from the ...
Zora has the advantage of coming from a middle-class home. Because of their class difference, the novel dramatizes the ways in which not only race and gender can oppress but class as well. Zora ...
SOURCE: “Disappearing Acts: Style, Seduction, and Performance in Dom Juan,” in Modern Language Notes, Vol. 106, No. 5, December, 1991, pp. 1030-47. [In the following essay, Schlossman ...
The film adaptation of How Stella Got Her Groove Back, also written by McMillan and Bass, was released in 1998, and the adaptation of Disappearing Acts was made for cable television network HBO in ...
From the enthusiasm with which critics and readers have received Disappearing Acts, it is clear that McMillan’s decision was the right one. Waiting to Exhale. First published: 1992. Type of work ...
