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Remembering The Past In Contemporary African American Fiction

Attribution
Keith Byerman
Publication Details
Book, University of North Carolina Press, 2005
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS374.N4 B94 2005 AVAILABLE
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Description
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. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Author
- Byerman, Keith Eldon, 1948-
Subject
Places in this work
- United States
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
ISBN
- 0807856479
- 0807829803
LCCN
- 2005010242
Open Library ID
- /b/OL3397359M