LEADER 04211nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910783363003321 005 20230421042417.0 010 $a0-19-802455-X 010 $a1-280-44361-8 010 $a1-4237-3887-X 010 $a0-19-535924-0 010 $a1-60129-941-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000028704 035 $a(EBL)241586 035 $a(OCoLC)475957353 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000171919 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11177338 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000171919 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10151702 035 $a(PQKB)10364689 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC241586 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4963613 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL241586 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10087193 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4963613 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL44361 035 $a(OCoLC)1027155851 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000028704 100 $a19930921d1994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aHistory and memory in African-American culture$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Genevie?ve Fabre, Robert O'Meally 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1994 215 $a1 online resource (332 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-508397-0 311 $a0-19-508396-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 1. Introduction; 2. The Black Writer's Use of Memory; 3. The Politics of Fiction, Anthropology, and the Folk: Zora Neale Hurston; 4. W. E. B. Du Bois and the Struggle for American Historical Memory; 5. African-American Commemorative Celebrations in the Nineteenth Century; 6. National Identity and Ethnic Diversity: ""Of Plymouth Rock and Jamestown and Ellis Island""; or, Ethnic Literature and Some Redefinitions of America; 7. International Beacons of African-American Memory: Alexandre Dumas pe?re, Henry O. Tanner, and Josephine Baker as Examples of Recognition 327 $a8. On the Wrong Side of the Fence: Racial Segregation in American Cemeteries9. What One Cannot Remember Mistakenly; 10. History-Telling and Time: An Example from Kentucky; 11. Memory and Mass Culture; 12. Performing the Memory of Difference in Afro-Caribbean Dance: Katherine Dunham's Choreography, 1938-87; 13. ""With a Whip in His Hand"": Rape, Memory, and African-American Women; 14. Sherley Anne Williams' Dessa Rose: History and the Disruptive Power of Memory; 15. Art History and Black Memory: Toward a ""Blues Aesthetic""; 16. On Burke and the Vernacular: Ralph Ellison's Boomerang of History 327 $a17. The Journals of Charlotte L. Forten-Grimke?: Les Lieux de Me?moire in African-American Women's Autobiography18. Washington Park; 19. Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Me?moire; Contributors; Index 330 $aAs Nathan Huggins once stated, altering American history to account fully for the nation's black voices would change the tone and meaning--the frame and the substance--of the entire story. Rather than a sort of Pilgrim's Progress tale of bold ascent and triumph, American history with the black parts told in full would be transmuted into an existential tragedy, closer, Huggins said, to Sartre's No Exit than to the vision of life in Bunyan. The relation between memory and history has received increasing attention both from historians and from literary critics. In this volume, a group of leading 606 $aAfrican Americans$xHistory 606 $aAfrican Americans$xHistoriography 606 $aAfrican American arts 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xHistory. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xHistoriography. 615 0$aAfrican American arts. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors. 676 $a305.896073 676 $a973/.0496073 701 $aFabre$b Genevie?ve$01118358 701 $aO'Meally$b Robert G.$f1948-$01480019 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783363003321 996 $aHistory and memory in African-American culture$93846929 997 $aUNINA