Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 176 p)
ISBN:
1282552910
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9781282552913
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9780820337029
Content:
This study articulates an approach to using memoirs as instruments of historical understanding. Wallach applies these principles to a body of memoirs about life in the American South during Jim Crow segregation, including works by Zora Neale Hurston, Willie Morris, Lillian Smith, Henry Louis Gates Jr., William Alexander Percy, and Richard Wright.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Autobiography and the Transformation of Historical Understanding -- 1. Subjectivity and the Felt Experience of History -- 2. Literary Techniques and Historical Understanding -- 3. African American Memoirists Remember Jim Crow -- 4. White Memoirists Remember Jim Crow -- Conclusion: Talking of Another World -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-169) and index
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""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Autobiography and the Transformation of Historical Understanding""; ""1. Subjectivity and the Felt Experience of History""; ""2. Literary Techniques and Historical Understanding""; ""3. African American Memoirists Remember Jim Crow""; ""4. White Memoirists Remember Jim Crow""; ""Conclusion: Talking of Another World""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""W""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1282552880
Additional Edition:
Print version Closer to the Truth Than Any Fact : Memoir, Memory, and Jim Crow
Language:
English
