Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction - Hardcover

Byerman, Keith

9780807829806: Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807829803 ISBN 13: 9780807829806

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr, 2005

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Byerman, Keith

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"This study is an extremely valuable and thoughtful reading of the shift toward history and historical memory in black fiction"-- The Journal of American History

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Providing close readings of more than 20 novels by writers including Ernest Gaines, Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson, Gloria Naylor, and John Edgar Wideman, Byerman examines the trend among African American novelists of the late 20th 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.

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