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1 online resource (x, 321 pages) : illustrations |
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OUP E-Books
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| Contents |
The Black writer's use of memory / Melvin Dixon -- The politics of fiction, anthropology, and the folk : Zora Neale Hurston / Hazel Carby -- W.E.B. Du Bois and the struggle for American historical memory / David W. Blight -- African-American commemorative : celebrations in the nineteenth century / Geneviève Fabre -- National identity and ethnic diversity : "of Plymouth Rock and Jamestown and Ellis Island" : or, ethnic literature and some redefinitions of America / Werner Sollors -- International beacons of African-American memory : Alexandre Dumas père, Henry O. Tanner, and Josephine Baker as examples of recognition / Michel Fabre -- On the wrong side of the fence : racial segregation in American cemeteries / Angelika Krüger-Kahloula -- What one cannot remember mistakenly / Karen Fields -- History-telling and time : an example from Kentucky / Alessandro Portelli -- Memory and mass culture / Susan Willis -- Performing the memory of difference in Afro-Caribbean dance : Katherine Dunham's choreography, 1938-87 / VéVé Clark -- "With a whip in his hand" : rape, memory, and African-American women / Catherine Clinton -- Sherley Anne Williams' Dessa Rose : history and the disruptive power of memory / Andrée-Anne Kekeh -- Art history and Black memory : toward a "blues aesthetic" / Richard J. Powell -- On Burke and the vernacular : Ralph Ellison's boomerang of history / Robert G. O'Meally -- The journals of Charlotte L. Forten-Grimké : Les Lieux de Mémoire in African-American women's autobiography / Nellie Y. McKay -- Washington Park / Robert Stepto -- Between memory and history : Les Lieux de Mémoire / Pierre Nora |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
Black persons Culture History |
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United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
African Americans -- History.
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African Americans -- Historiography
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African American arts.
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American literature -- African American authors.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
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African American arts
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African Americans
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African Americans -- Historiography
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American literature -- African American authors
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Geschichte
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Geschichtsschreibung
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Kultur
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Literatur
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Schwarze
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Historisch besef.
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Geschiedschrijving.
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Zwarten.
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Noirs américains -- Histoire.
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Écrivains noirs américains -- États-Unis.
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Arts noirs américains -- États-Unis.
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Noirs américains -- Historiographie.
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Art noir américain.
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Littérature américaine -- Auteurs noirs américains.
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Geschichte 1800-1990.
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USA
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Schwärze
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Fabre, Geneviève
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O'Meally, Robert G., 1948-
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| LC no. |
93037582 |
| ISBN |
142373887X |
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9781423738879 |
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9780195083965 |
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0195083962 |
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9780195083972 |
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0195083970 |
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1280443618 |
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9781280443619 |
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9786610443611 |
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6610443610 |
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