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1 online resource (viii, 228 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-222) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- African American authors. |
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Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Literature and history. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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20th century |
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
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African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life. |
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Historical fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Historical fiction, American. |
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Autobiographical memory in literature.
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Autobiographical memory in literature. |
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans in literature. |
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History in literature.
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History in literature. |
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Memory in literature.
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Memory in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Byerman, Keith Eldon, 1948- Remembering the past in contemporary African American fiction. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2005 0807829803 0807856479 (DLC) 2005010242 (OCoLC)59147995 |
| ISBN |
080787678X (electronic book) |
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9780807876787 (electronic book) |
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0807829803 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807829806 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0807856479 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807856475 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
