The Tree of Forgetfulness : A Novel /

In The Tree of Forgetfulness, writer Pam Durban, winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award, continues her exploration of southern history and memory. This mesmerizing and disquieting novel recovers the largely untold story of a brutal Jim Crow-era triple lynching in Aiken County, South Carolina. Throug...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Durban, Pam
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Race relations.
Lynching.
FICTION > General.
Lynchage > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Lynching > Fiction.
South Carolina > Aiken County.
South Carolina.
Caroline du Sud > Relations raciales > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Aiken County (S.C.) > Fiction.
South Carolina > Race relations > Fiction.
Fiction.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In The Tree of Forgetfulness, writer Pam Durban, winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award, continues her exploration of southern history and memory. This mesmerizing and disquieting novel recovers the largely untold story of a brutal Jim Crow-era triple lynching in Aiken County, South Carolina. Through the interweaving of several characters' voices, Durban produces a complex narrative in which each section reveals a different facet of the event. The Tree of Forgetfulness resurrects a troubled past and explores the individual and collective loyalties that led a community to choose silence over ju.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (184 pages).
ISBN:9780807149737

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