Remembering the past in contemporary African American fiction [[electronic resource] /] / Keith Byerman

• Autore: Byerman Keith Eldon <1948->
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.5409358/08996073
• Soggetto topico: American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism; Literature and history - United States - History - 20th century; American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; African Americans - Intellectual life - 20th century; Historical fiction, American - History and criticism; Autobiographical memory in literature; African Americans in literature; History in literature; Memory in literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-222) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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. FAMILY ; 8 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; W
• Sommario/riassunto: With 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 historicall
• Titolo autorizzato: Remembering the past in contemporary African American fiction
• ISBN: 0-8078-7678-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454474903321
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