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- catalog abstract ""Slavery is America's family secret, a partially hidden phantom that continues to haunt our national imagination. Remembering Generations explores how three contemporary African American writers artistically represent this notion in novels about the enduring effects of slavery on the descendants of slaves in the post-civil rights era." "Focusing on Gayl Jones's Corregidora (1975), David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident (1981), and Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979), Ashraf Rushdy begins by situating these works in their cultural moment of production and highlighting the ways in which they respond to contemporary debates about race and family, which assumed new levels of importance in the 1970s with the waning of the Black Power movement and the release of the Moynihan Report. He then shows how each novel, in its own way, traces the historical origins of race to the practices of American slavery; comments on how racialized slavery causes deviations in the treatment of such traditional literary themes as desire, death, and kinship; and constructs new ways of conceiving of the interrelationship of race and family in America. Following the evolution of this literary form into the 1990s, Rushdy looks at such works as Edward Ball's Slaves in the Family (1998) and Macky Alston's Family Name (1997), in which descendants of slaveholders expose the family secrets of their ancestors." "Remembering Generations examines the questions of how cultural works contribute to social debates, how a particular representational form emerges out of a specific historical epoch, and how some contemporary intellectuals meditate on the issue of historical responsibility - of recognizing that the slave past continues to exert an influence on contemporary American society."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12039394.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Slavery is America's family secret, a partially hidden phantom that continues to haunt our national imagination. Remembering Generations explores how three contemporary African American writers artistically represent this notion in novels about the enduring effects of slavery on the descendants of slaves in the post-civil rights era." "Focusing on Gayl Jones's Corregidora (1975), David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident (1981), and Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979), Ashraf Rushdy begins by situating these works in their cultural moment of production and highlighting the ways in which they respond to contemporary debates about race and family, which assumed new levels of importance in the 1970s with the waning of the Black Power movement and the release of the Moynihan Report. He then shows how each novel, in its own way, traces the historical origins of race to the practices of American slavery; comments on how racialized slavery causes deviations in the treatment of such traditional literary themes as desire, death, and kinship; and constructs new ways of conceiving of the interrelationship of race and family in America. Following the evolution of this literary form into the 1990s, Rushdy looks at such works as Edward Ball's Slaves in the Family (1998) and Macky Alston's Family Name (1997), in which descendants of slaveholders expose the family secrets of their ancestors." "Remembering Generations examines the questions of how cultural works contribute to social debates, how a particular representational form emerges out of a specific historical epoch, and how some contemporary intellectuals meditate on the issue of historical responsibility - of recognizing that the slave past continues to exert an influence on contemporary American society."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "History is your own heartbeat : the palimpsest imperative in African American fiction -- The sexual is historical : the subject of desire -- The stillness that comes to all : the subject of death -- Orphans of the one-way voyage : the subject of family -- A legacy of history, an enchantment of history : the subject of the present.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-202) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 209 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0807826014 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0807849170 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "810.9/896073/0904 21".
- catalog subject "African American families in literature.".
- catalog subject "African Americans Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog subject "African Americans in literature.".
- catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American fiction African American authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Domestic fiction, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "First person narrative.".
- catalog subject "Literature and society United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "PS374.N4 R87 2001".
- catalog subject "Race in literature.".
- catalog subject "Slavery in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "History is your own heartbeat : the palimpsest imperative in African American fiction -- The sexual is historical : the subject of desire -- The stillness that comes to all : the subject of death -- Orphans of the one-way voyage : the subject of family -- A legacy of history, an enchantment of history : the subject of the present.".
- catalog title "Remembering generations : race and family in contemporary African American fiction / Ashraf H.A. Rushdy.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".