Remembering the past in contemporary African American fiction /

Remembering the past in contemporary African American fiction /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Byerman, Keith Eldon, 1948-
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
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.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.