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Introduction
In African-American History, Thomas C. Holt states that, although the study of black American history was initiated and developed by African American intellectuals and activists, it was Gunnar Myrdal’s American D...
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Conclusion
Having as their point of departure the idea that “the past,” as James Baldwin notes, “is all that makes the present coherent, and further, that the past will remain horrible as long as we refuse to assess it ho.....
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Contexts
My interest here is to consider a number of texts that significantly determined the development of twentieth-century African American women’s writing. Issues from the accuracy of portraits of black American exp.....
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History as Birthmark
The 1960s witnessed a renewed interest in slave narratives and African American history and culture, and the development of an aesthetics that was politically engaged, highlighted a need for social and economic.....
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“Her Best Thing, Her Beautiful, Magical Best Thing”
Recent portrayals of the slavery era are dominated by two main trends: the genealogical novel and narratives that use fantastic and magical realist elements in order to represent history. Linda Beatrice Brown’s C...
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Setting the Record Straight
One of the twentieth-century writers who followed in the steps of her African American literary foremothers, taking into account not only the content and direction of her artistic project but also the course of.....
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“The Undocumentable Inside of History”
The notion of the recreation of a past to which the historian has limited or no access informs the African American historical novels of the 1980s and subsequent decades. Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987), for examp...
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Disembodiments
Figurations of the Middle Passage have presented the body as an archive of a history that attempts to deal with the want of a continuum of cultural memory. Artists’ reliance on a history that has to be construc.....
