Intertextualizing Collective American Memory

Southern, African American and Native American Fiction
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-8471-1717-9
Verlag: V&R unipress

Buch, Englisch, 229 Seiten, kartoniert, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 354 g

Reihe: Passages - Transitions - Intersections

This study of collective American memory exposes the historical phenomenon of self-directed American imperialism, still frequently ignored or denied in the United States. Over the course of the 250 years of its history, this has taken the form of African American slavery, thwarted black motherhood, same-race slavery (both white and African American) as well as the extermination of indigenous American peoples. On the literary level, the study helps to broaden, or even modify, the present perspective on the oeuvres of four major American writers, i. e., William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, and Cormac McCarthy, by pointing to the intertwining of their themes, motifs, and techniques of writing to form an intricate pattern of the intertextualized collective memory of the American nation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Branny, Grazyna Maria Teresa

Branny, Graz?yna M. T.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Branny, Grazyna Maria Teresa
Grazyna Maria Teresa Branny is Associate Professor at the Ignatianum University in Kraków, Poland. She has almost 100 publications to her name, mostly in Southern studies, Joseph Conrad studies, African American literature and Native American literature.

Branny, Grazyna Maria Teresa
Grazyna Maria Teresa Branny is Associate Professor at the Ignatianum University in Kraków, Poland. She has almost 100 publications to her name, mostly in Southern studies, Joseph Conrad studies, African American literature and Native American literature.