Remembering Generations: Race and Family in Contemporary African American Fiction - Couverture rigide

Rushdy, Ashraf H. A.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0807826014 ISBN 13 : 9780807826010

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2001

Synopsis

African American writers explore the enduring effects of slavery on American society Slavery is America's family secret, says Ashraf Rushdy, a partially hidden phantom that continues to haunt our national imagination. Remembering Generations explores how three contemporary African American writers artistically represent this notion in novels about the enduring effects of slavery on the descendants of slaves in the post-civil rights era. Focusing on Gayl Jones's Corregidora (1975), David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident (1981), and Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979), Rushdy situates these works in their cultural moment of production, highlighting the ways in which they respond to contemporary debates about race and family. Tracing the evolution of this literary form, he considers such works as Edward Ball's Slaves in the Family (1998), in which descendants of slaveholders expose the family secrets of their ancestors. Remembering Generations examines how cultural works contribute to social debates, how a particular representational form emerges out of a specific historical epoch, and how some contemporary intellectuals meditate on the issue of historical responsibility - of recognizing that the slave past continues to exert an influence on contemporary American society.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ashraf H. A. Rushdy is associate professor in the African American Studies Program and the English Department at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. He is author of Neo-Slave Narratives: Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807826014
• ISBN 13: 9780807826010
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
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• Personne responsable: non disponible