"Closer to the truth than any fact" : memoir, memory, and Jim Crow /

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Wallach (Georgia College and State Univ.) provides a fascinating look at literary memoirs that deal with US racism against African Americans. She rightly notes that historians have been loathe to accept memoirs as historical documents, since the genre is by nature subjective. However, she persuasive...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wallach, Jennifer Jensen, 1974-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2008.
Temas:
African Americans > Social conditions > Historiography.
African Americans > Segregation > Historiography.
Race discrimination > United States > Historiography.
Autobiography > African American authors.
African Americans > Biography > History and criticism.
Noirs américains > Conditions sociales > Historiographie.
Noirs américains > Ségrégation > Historiographie.
Noirs américains > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
African Americans
African Americans > Biography
Autobiography > African American authors
Rassendiskriminierung
Geschichtsschreibung
United States
Schwärze
USA
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Autobiography and the transformation of historical understanding
  • Subjectivity and the felt experience of history
  • Literary techniques and historical understanding
  • African American memoirists remember Jim Crow
  • White memoirists remember Jim Crow
  • Talking of another world.

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