Intertextualizing Collective American Memory: Southern, African American and Native American Fiction (Passages – Transitions – Intersections) - Softcover

Branny, Prof. Dr. Grażyna Maria Teresa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3847117173 ISBN 13: 9783847117179

Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH, 2024

Synopsis

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

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About the Author

Grażyna 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3847117173
• ISBN 13: 9783847117179
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 229