{"product_id":"history-and-memory-in-african-american-culture-9780195083965","title":"History and Memory in African-American Culture","description":"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 \u003cem\u003ePilgrim's Progress\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eNo Exit\u003c\/em\u003e than to the vision of life in Bunyan. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The renowned group of contributors, including Hazel Carby, Werner Sollors, V�v� Clark, Catherine Clinton, and Nellie McKay, among others, consists of participants of the five-year series of conferences at the DuBois Institute at Harvard University, from which this collection originated. Conducted under the leadership of Genevi�ve Fabre, Melvin Dixon, and the late Nathan Huggins, the conferences--and as a result, this book--represent something of a cultural moment themselves, and scholars and students of American and African-American literature and history will be richer as a result.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fabre, Genevieve\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195083965\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.36h x 6.32w x 1.05d","brand":"Genevieve Fabre","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32745614803019,"sku":"9780195083965","price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_6a0372e9-3fc1-44a7-ab4c-3162bab27200.jpg?v=1597704404","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/history-and-memory-in-african-american-culture-9780195083965","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}