| Description |
x, 321 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 / Genevieve 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 pere, 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 Kruger-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 / VeVe 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 / Andree-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-Grimke : Les Lieux de Memoire in African-American women's autobiography / Nellie Y. McKay -- Washington Park / Robert Stepto -- Between memory and history : Les Lieux de Memoire / Pierre Nora. |
| 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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| Added Author |
Fabre, Genevieve.
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O'Meally, Robert G., 1948-
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| ISBN |
0195083970 (pbk. : acid-free paper) : $18.95 |
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0195083962 (acid-free paper) : $39.95 |
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