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Author:

Byerman, Keith Eldon, 1948-

Title:

Remembering the past in contemporary African American fiction / Keith Byerman.

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

viii, 228 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--History and criticism.--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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-222) and index.

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:

9780807856475 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807856479 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807829806 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807829803 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)59147995

LCCN:

2005010242

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)