"Closer to the truth than any fact" : memoir, memory, and Jim Crow

"Closer to the truth than any fact" : memoir, memory, and Jim Crow / Jennifer Jensen Wallach.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wallach, Jennifer Jensen, 1974-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2008.
Subjects:
African Americans > Social conditions > Historiography.
African Americans > Segregation > Historiography.
Race discrimination > United States > Historiography.
Autobiography > African American authors.
African Americans > Biography > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Autobiography and the transformation of historical understanding
  • Subjectivity and the felt experience of history
  • Literary techniques and historical understanding
  • African American memoirists remember Jim Crow
  • White memoirists remember Jim Crow
  • Conclusion : Talking of another world.

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