History and Memory in African-American Culture

Name: History and Memory in African-American Culture
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ISBN: 9780195083965

ISBN-10: 0195083962

ISBN-13: 9780195083965

Edition: 1994

Authors: Geneviï¿½ve Fabre, Robert G. O'Meally

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The relation between history and memory has become an object of increasing attention among historians and literary critics. Through a team of leading scholars, this volume offers a complex picture of the dynamic ways in which an African-American historical identity constantly invents and transmits itself in books, art, performance, and oral documents.

Book details

List price: $145.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/15/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English




Introduction




The Black Writer's Use of Memory




The Politics of Fiction, Anthropology, and the Folk: Zora Neale Hurston




W. E. B. Du Bois and the Struggle for American Historical Memory




African-American Commemorative Celebrations in the Nineteenth Century




National Identity and Ethnic Diversity: "Of Plymouth Rock and Jamestown and Ellis Island"; or, Ethnic Literature and Some Redefinitions of America




International Beacons of African-American Memory: Alexandre Dumas pere, Henry O. Tanner, and Josephine Baker as Examples of Recognition




On the Wrong Side of the Fence: Racial Segregation in American Cemeteries




What One Cannot Remember Mistakenly




History-Telling and Time: An Example from Kentucky




Memory and Mass Culture




Performing the Memory of Difference in Afro-Caribbean Dance: Katherine Dunham's Choreography, 1938-87




"With a Whip in His Hand": Rape, Memory, and African-American Women




Sherley Anne Williams' Dessa Rose: History and the Disruptive Power of Memory




Art History and Black Memory: Toward a "Blues Aesthetic"




On Burke and the Vernacular: Ralph Ellison's Boomerang of History




The Journals of Charlotte L. Forten-Grimke: Les Lieux de Memoire in African-American Women's Autobiography




Washington Park




Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Memoire



Contributors


Index