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Closer to the Truth Than Any Fact : Memoir, Memory, and Jim Crow.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (189 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780820337029
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Closer to the Truth Than Any FactDDC classification:
  • 305.896/073
LOC classification:
  • E185.61.W1925 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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