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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ndi, Bill F. (Editor ), Ndeh, Festus Fru (Editor ), Ankumah, Adaku T. (Editor ), Fishkin, Benjamin Hart (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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