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Outward Evil Inward Battle : Human Memory in Literature /
This book is a timely humanistic touch to memory studies. It uses literature as a laboratory for the workings of the mind, and characters as the subjects of human experimentation and diagnostics. This book considers authors from different societies and historical periods. The book is a refreshing il...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2013.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : towards a paradigm of memory in literature
- Section 1. Power
- Quakers, memory & the past in literature / Bill F. Ndi
- The power of memory : crossroads in works by Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and August Wilson / Benjamin Hart Fishkin
- Section . Music
- Memory, the blues, and African American slave narratives / Loretta S. Burns
- It rains inside : parenting and music in works by William Faulkner, August Wilson, and Sherman Alexie / Benjamin Hart Fishkin
- Section 3. Resistance
- Unwavering insubordination : rebellion & memory in the letters of Elizabeth Hooton / Bill F. Ndi
- Memory and resistance in the poetry of Gcina Mhlophe / Adaku T. Ankumah
- Section 4. Trauma
- Veiling the past : memory and identity in Edwidge Danticat's The dew breaker / Adaku T. Ankumah
- Memorizing the dark : Margaret Walkerand Toni Morrison compress African American time and space in poetry and fiction / Eleanor J. Blount
- Section 5. Cultural identity
- There's no place like home : cultural memory in Toni Morrison's Tar baby and Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes and memory / Rhonda Collier
- "Go back and get it" : spirit possession as rite of passage and a medium of self-reinvention in contemporary African diasporic literature / Festus Fru Ndeh
- Index.