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Remembering the past in contemporary African American fiction /
With readings of more than twenty novels, this book examines the trend among African American novelists of the late twentieth century to write about black history, rather than about their own present. Employing cultural criticism and trauma theory, it frames these works as survivor narratives.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- History, culture, discourse : America's racial formation
- Burying the dead : the pain of memory in Beloved
- Bearing witness : the recent fiction of Ernest Gaines
- Troubling the water : subversive women's voices in Dessa Rose and Mama Day
- A short history of desire : Jazz and Bailey's Cafe
- The color of desire : folk history in the fiction of Raymond Andrews
- Postmodern slavery and the transcendence of desire : the novels of Charles Johnson
- Family secrets : reinventions of history in The Chaneysville incident
- Family troubles : history as subversion in Two wings to veil my face and Divine days
- Lost generations : John Edgar Wideman's Homewood narratives
- Apocalyptic visions and false prophets : the end(s) of history in Wideman, Johnson, and Morrison.