History and memory in African-American culture / edited by Geneviève Fabre, Robert O'Meally.
1994
E185 .H546 1994eb
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Title
History and memory in African-American culture / edited by Geneviève Fabre, Robert O'Meally.
ISBN
142373887X (electronic bk.)
9781423738879 (electronic bk.)
9780195083965 (acid-free paper)
0195083962 (acid-free paper)
9780195083972 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
0195083970 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
1280443618
9781280443619
9786610443611
6610443610
0195083962 (acid-free paper)
0195083970 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
9781423738879 (electronic bk.)
9780195083965 (acid-free paper)
0195083962 (acid-free paper)
9780195083972 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
0195083970 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
1280443618
9781280443619
9786610443611
6610443610
0195083962 (acid-free paper)
0195083970 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
Imprint
New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 321 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers
9780195083965
Call Number
E185 .H546 1994eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)191951470
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
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