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As Nathan Huggins once stated, altering American history to account fully for the nation's black voices would change the tone and meaning - the frame and the substance - of the entire story. Rather than a sort of Pilgrim's Progress tale of bold ascent and triumph, American history with the black parts told in full would be transmuted into an existential tragedy, closer, Huggins said, to Sartre's No Exit than to the vision of life in Bunyan.
The relation between memory and history has received increasing attention both from historians and from literary critics. In this volume, a group of leading scholars has come together to examine the role of historical consciousness and imagination in African-American culture. The result is a complex picture of the dynamic ways in which African-American historical identity constantly invents and transmits itself in literature, art, oral documents, and performances.
Each of the scholars represented has chosen a different "site of memory" - from a variety of historical and geographical points, and from different ideological, theoretical, and artistic perspectives. Yet the book is unified by a common concern with the construction of an emerging African-American cultural memory.
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Historiography, African American arts, African Americans, History, Noirs américains, Geschichtsschreibung, Literatur, Art noir américain, Geschichte, Historisch besef, Geschichte 1800-1990, Schwarze, Arts noirs américains, Kultur, Auteurs noirs américains, Écrivains noirs américains, Littérature américaine, Histoire, Negers, Historiographie, Geschiedschrijving, Aufsatzsammlung, African americans, history, African american art, American literature, african american authors, American literature, African American authorsShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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History and memory in African-American culture
1994, Oxford University Press
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History and Memory in African-American Culture
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