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BL
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1012838
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b767208
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Main Entry
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Byerman, Keith Eldon,1948-
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Title & Author
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Remembering the past in contemporary African American fiction /\ Keith Byerman.
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Publication Statement
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Chapel Hill :: University of North Carolina Press,, ©2005.
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Page. NO
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1 online resource (viii, 228 pages)
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ISBN
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080787678X
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0807829803
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0807856479
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9780807829806
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9780807856475
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-222) and index.
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Contents
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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.
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Abstract
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With readings of more than twenty novels, this book examines the trend among African American novelists of the late twentieth century to write about black history, rather than about their own present. Employing cultural criticism and trauma theory, it frames these works as survivor narratives.
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Subject
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans-- Intellectual life-- 20th century.
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American fiction-- African American authors-- History and criticism.
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American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Autobiographical memory in literature.
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Historical fiction, American-- History and criticism.
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History in literature.
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Literature and history-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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Memory in literature.
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Histoire dans la littérature.
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Littérature et histoire-- États-Unis-- Histoire-- 20e siècle.
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Mémoire dans la littérature.
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Mémoire épisodique dans la littérature.
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Noirs américains dans la littérature.
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Noirs américains-- Vie intellectuelle-- 20e siècle.
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Roman américain-- Auteurs noirs américains-- Histoire et critique.
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Roman américain-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
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Roman historique américain-- Histoire et critique.
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans-- Intellectual life.
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American fiction-- African American authors.
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American fiction.
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Autobiographical memory in literature.
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Historical fiction, American.
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Historischer Roman
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History in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Literature and history.
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Memory in literature.
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Vergangenheit
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Roman.
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Amerikaans.
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Fictie.
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Historische romans.
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Schwarze.
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United States.
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USA.
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Dewey Classification
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813/.5409358/08996073
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LC Classification
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PS374.N4B94 2005eb
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NLM classification
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18.06bcl
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