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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Durban, Pam
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2012.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (184 pages).
ISBN:9780807149737

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