History Memory Recovery And Representation In Contemporary Fiction By African American Women Writers

Author : Silvia del Pilar Castro Borrego
Publisher : Universidad Almería
ISBN 13 : 8482402587
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History, memory, recovery and representation in contemporary fiction by african american women writers written by Silvia del Pilar Castro Borrego and published by Universidad Almería. This book was released on 1999-08-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Antonia Domínguez Miguela
Publisher : Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Huelva
ISBN 13 : 8418984082
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book EVOLVING ORIGINS, TRANSPLANTING CULTURES written by Antonia Domínguez Miguela and published by Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Huelva. This book was released on 2021-10-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colección de ensayos críticos de obras literarias norteamericanas firmadas por escritores exiliados y emigrantes, o por sus descendientes, ya nacidos en EE.UU., de origen cubano, mexicano, puertorriqueño, dominicano, asiático, afrocaribeño y europeo. Las obras literarias que se analizan fueron publicadas después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, si bien se han incluido otras anteriores por ser antecedentes de esta literatura de diversas diásporas. The volume is a collection of critical essays on North American literary works produced by immigrant and exiled writers or American-born descendants of Cuban. Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Asian, European, and Afro-Caribbean origin. These literary works were published after the Second World War even though some earlier works have been included as antecedents of these literatures of diasporas. They create an amalgam of what being an American means in contemporary society.

Author : Stefanie Sievers
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825839192
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberating Narratives written by Stefanie Sievers and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 1999 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three contemporary novels of slavery - Margaret Walker's Jubilee (1966), Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose (1986) and Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987) - are the central focus of Liberating Narratives. In significantly different ways that reflect their individual and socio-political contexts of origin, these three novels can all be read as critiques of historical representation and as alternative spaces for remembrance - 'sites of memory' - that attempt to shift the conceptual ground on which our knowledge of the past is based.

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300255918
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book United States and Africa Relations, 1400s to the Present written by Toyin Falola and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of the relationship between Africa and the United States Toyin Falola and Raphael Njoku reexamine the history of the relationship between Africa and the United States from the dawn of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the present. Their broad, interdisciplinary book follows the relationship’s evolution, tracking African American emancipation, the rise of African diasporas in the Americas, the Back-to-Africa movement, the founding of Sierra Leone and Liberia, the presence of American missionaries in Africa, the development of blues and jazz music, the presidency of Barack Obama, and more.

Author : Silvia Castro-Borrego
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443830372
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Search for Wholeness and Diaspora Literacy in Contemporary African American Literature written by Silvia Castro-Borrego and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume has as a cohesive argument the exploration of the different manifestations of the search for wholeness and spirituality in the writings of contemporary African American women writers, covering different literary genres such as fiction (both novels and short stories), drama and poetry. Together with the issue of spirituality, the African American search for wholeness is analyzed as a source of creativity and agency. As expressed in the contemporary literature of black women writers, starting in the 1980s, the search for wholeness reflects a beauty realized through the healing of the spirit and the body, and is a process that takes on dimensions of reconciling the past and the present, the mythical and the real, the spiritual and the physical—all in the context of an emerging world view that welcomes synthesis and expects both synthesis and generative contradictions. The book will be a valuable collection for scholars of African American literature, comparative American Ethnic literature, American literature, and spirituality, as well as women’s studies. In addition, it will be an important text for both undergraduate and graduate students in those fields. As Professor Johnnella Butler (2006) points out, the African American search for wholeness is tightly linked to the search for freedom and agency. Ever since the 19th century, African American writers have given expression to an African American self which functions in Western civilization simultaneously as a “colonized” other and an assertive “self.” Due to the continuous ordeal of the African Diaspora, this self is caught in between the binaries proposed by the material and the spiritual world, seeking a balance where the person can become whole. The search for wholeness feeds from cultural roots that imply the presence of ancestral spiritualism, rememory, and double consciousness. Contemporary black women writers reflect the metaphor of building spiritual bridges, seeking the possibilities of building a bridge to the archetypal African past that is carried in their memories as a presence that offers sustenance via spiritual reconnection. Their works seek to bridge the gap between the myths and traditions of the past and contemporary African American culture. The texts included in this collection are examples of writing as an exercise of what Vévé Clark calls “Diaspora literacy.” The texts written by contemporary African American women writers explicitly show how to recognize and read the cultural signs left scattered along the road of progress. In this way, material acquisition is achieved along with cultural dispossession, becoming a metaphor for the history of the African in America. The powerful message is that one should not exclude the other.

Author : A. Nunes
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230118852
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African American Women Writers' Historical Fiction written by A. Nunes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores African American historical fiction written by women in the last four decades of the twentieth century. Nunes' approach to the texts aims at emphasizing the narrative and thematic achievements of individual novels set in the context of the main trends and developments of the contemporary African American historical novel.

Author : Mar Gallego Durán
Publisher : Universitat de València
ISBN 13 : 8437083990
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dialectics of Diaspora: Memory, Location and Gender written by Mar Gallego Durán and published by Universitat de València. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aquest llibre reflecteix l'evolució en el camp dels estudis diaspòrics. Els articles han estat agrupats en dues seccions. La primera té com objectiu les experiències dels africans diaspòrics; la segona secció, àmplia el radi de recerca i se centra en les representacions literàries de la diàspora dels asiàtic-americans, porto-riquenys i als anglo-europeus. De la mateixa manera, un aspecte no menys interessant d'aquest llibre són les múltiples maneres en les que s'han tornat a teoritzar les idees de Paul Gilroy i a aplicar-se a una infinitat d'escrits. De fet, els articles testifiquen la diàspora com una experiència que potencialment pot -com així succeeix- afectar a tot el món, pel que la diàspora es converteix en una representació metonímica de la pròpia experiència.

Author : Joanne V. Gabbin
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 160473471X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shaping Memories written by Joanne V. Gabbin and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology offers short chapters by notable black women writers on pivotal moments that strongly influenced their careers. It provides a thorough overview of the formal concerns and thematic issues facing contemporary black women writers, and includes an introduction that places these writers in the context of American literature in general and African American literature in particular.

Author : Patricia San José Rico
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004364102
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating Memory and Cultural Identity in African American Trauma Fiction written by Patricia San José Rico and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do contemporary African American authors relate trauma, memory, and the recovery of the past with the processes of cultural and identity formation in African American communities?

Author : Maria Rice Bellamy
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813937973
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bridges to Memory written by Maria Rice Bellamy and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the development of a new genre in contemporary American literature that was engendered in the civil rights, feminist, and ethnic empowerment struggles of the 1960s and 1970s, Bridges to Memory shows how these movements authorized African American and ethnic American women writers to reimagine the traumatic histories that form their ancestral inheritance and define their contemporary identities. Drawing on the concept of postmemory—a paradigm developed to describe the relationship that children of Holocaust survivors have to their parents' traumatic experiences—Maria Bellamy examines narrative representations of this inherited form of trauma in the work of contemporary African American and ethnic American women writers. Focusing on Gayl Jones's Corregidora, Octavia Butler's Kindred, Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata, Cristina García's Dreaming in Cuban, Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman, and Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker, Bellamy shows how cultural context determines the ways in which traumatic history is remembered and transmitted to future generations. Taken together, these narratives of postmemory manifest the haunting presence of the past in the present and constitute an archive of textual witness and global relevance that builds cross-cultural understanding and ethical engagement with the suffering of others.