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

Author/creator Byerman, Keith Eldon, 1948-
Format Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2005.
Descriptionviii, 228 pages ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
American fiction--African American authors. --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.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [203]-222) and index.
LCCN 2005010242
ISBN0807829803 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0807856479 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS374.B635 B94 2005 ✔ Available Place Hold