History and memory in African-American culture /
The relation between history and memory has become an object of increasing attention among historians and literary critics. Through a team of leading scholars, this volume offers a complex picture of the dynamic ways in which an African-American historical identity constantly invents and transmits i...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1994.
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Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Black writer's use of memory / Melvin Dixon
- The politics of fiction, anthropology, and the folk : Zora Neale Hurston / Hazel Carby
- W.E.B. Du Bois and the struggle for American historical memory / David W. Blight
- African-American commemorative : celebrations in the nineteenth century / Geneviève Fabre
- National identity and ethnic diversity : "of Plymouth Rock and Jamestown and Ellis Island" : or, ethnic literature and some redefinitions of America / Werner Sollors
- International beacons of African-American memory : Alexandre Dumas père, Henry O. Tanner, and Josephine Baker as examples of recognition / Michel Fabre
- On the wrong side of the fence : racial segregation in American cemeteries / Angelika Krüger-Kahloula
- What one cannot remember mistakenly / Karen Fields
- History-telling and time : an example from Kentucky / Alessandro Portelli
- Memory and mass culture / Susan Willis
- Performing the memory of difference in Afro-Caribbean dance : Katherine Dunham's choreography, 1938-87 / VéVé Clark
- "With a whip in his hand" : rape, memory, and African-American women / Catherine Clinton
- Sherley Anne Williams' Dessa Rose : history and the disruptive power of memory / Andrée-Anne Kekeh
- Art history and Black memory : toward a "blues aesthetic" / Richard J. Powell
- On Burke and the vernacular : Ralph Ellison's boomerang of history / Robert G. O'Meally
- The journals of Charlotte L. Forten-Grimké : Les Lieux de Mémoire in African-American women's autobiography / Nellie Y. McKay
- Washington Park / Robert Stepto
- Between memory and history : Les Lieux de Mémoire / Pierre Nora.