From a Thing into an I Am: Autobiographical Narrative and Metahistorical Discourse in Contemporary African-American Fiction
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1 juin 2017
- doi: 10.4000/books.pufr.3921
- eisbn: 9782869064652
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Klaus Benesch, « From a Thing into an I Am: Autobiographical Narrative and Metahistorical Discourse in Contemporary African-American Fiction », Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, ID : 10.4000/books.pufr.3921
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It was as though we were the last men in the world, survivors of a holocaust at Hegel's end of history, trying to figure out what went wrong.(Johnson, [1982] 1984) In his epilogue to an anthology that assembled the major literary achievements of the so-called Black Arts Movement the poet and co-editor Larry Neal concluded by saying that: History weighs down on all of this literature. Every black writer in America has had to react to this history, either to make peace with it, or make war with...