Remembering the past in contemporary African American fiction /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Byerman, Keith Eldon, 1948-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2005]
Subjects:	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.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of 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.