04230nam 2200745 a 450 991078283470332120230617001457.0979-88-908778-1-90-8078-7678-X(CKB)1000000000746903(EBL)427116(OCoLC)437111186(SSID)ssj0000235829(PQKBManifestationID)11216513(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000235829(PQKBWorkID)10163513(PQKB)10184528(Au-PeEL)EBL427116(CaPaEBR)ebr10273399(CaONFJC)MIL930763(MiAaPQ)EBC427116(EXLCZ)99100000000074690320050411d2005 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRemembering the past in contemporary African American fiction[electronic resource] /Keith ByermanChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20051 online resource (241 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-2980-3 0-8078-5647-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-222) and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Toward a History of the Black Present; 1 History, Culture, Discourse: America's Racial Formation; PART I. MEMORY; 2 Burying the Dead: The Pain of Memory in Beloved; 3 Bearing Witness: The Recent Fiction of Ernest Gaines; 4 Troubling the Water: Subversive Women's Voices in Dessa Rose and Mama Day; PART II. DESIRE; 5 A Short History of Desire: Jazz and Bailey's Cafe; 6 The Color of Desire: Folk History in the Fiction of Raymond Andrews; 7 Postmodern Slavery and the Transcendence of Desire: The Novels of Charles Johnson; PART III. FAMILY8 Family Secrets: Reinventions of History in The Chaneysville Incident9 Family Troubles: History as Subversion in Two Wings to Veil My Face and Divine Days; 10 Lost Generations: John Edgar Wideman's Homewood Narratives; PART IV. THE END(S); 11 Apocalyptic Visions and False Prophets: The End(s) of History in Wideman, Johnson, and Morrison; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; WWith close readings of more than twenty novels by writers including Ernest Gaines, Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson, Gloria Naylor, and John Edgar Wideman, Keith Byerman 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, Byerman frames these works as survivor narratives that rewrite the grand American narrative of individual achievement and the march of democracy. The choice to write historical narratives, he says, must be understood historicallAmerican fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismLiterature and historyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismAfrican AmericansIntellectual life20th centuryHistorical fiction, AmericanHistory and criticismAutobiographical memory in literatureAfrican Americans in literatureHistory in literatureMemory in literatureAmerican fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.Literature and historyHistoryAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.African AmericansIntellectual lifeHistorical fiction, AmericanHistory and criticism.Autobiographical memory in literature.African Americans in literature.History in literature.Memory in literature.813/.5409358/08996073Byerman Keith Eldon1948-1468647MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782834703321Remembering the past in contemporary African American fiction3849553UNINA