Closer to the Truth Than Any Fact Memoir, Memory, and Jim Crow

Name: Closer to the Truth Than Any Fact Memoir, Memory, and Jim Crow
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ISBN: 9780820335025

ISBN-10: 0820335029

ISBN-13: 9780820335025

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jennifer Jensen Wallach

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Although historians frequently use memoirs as source material, too often they confine such usage to the anecdotal, and there is little methodological literature regarding the genre's possibilities and limitations. This study articulates an approach to using memoirs as instruments of historical understanding. Jennifer Jensen Wallach applies these principles to a body of memoirs about life in the American South during Jim Crow segregation, including works by Zora Neale Hurston, Willie Morris, Lillian Smith, Henry Louis Gates Jr., William Alexander Percy, and Richard Wright.Wallach argues that the field of autobiography studies, which is currently dominated by literary critics, needs a new…

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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 4/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.44" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Jennifer Jensen Wallach is associate professor of history at the University of North Texas and the author of How America Eats: A Social History of US Food and Culture.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Autobiography and the Transformation of Historical Understanding



Subjectivity and the Felt Experience of History



Literary Techniques and Historical Understanding



African American Memoirists Remember Jim Crow



White Memoirists Remember Jim Crow


Conclusion: Talking of AnotherWorld


Notes


Bibliography


Index