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"Closer to the truth than any fact" : memoir, memory, and Jim Crow / Jennifer Jensen Wallach.
Van Pelt Library E185.61 .W1925 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wallach, Jennifer Jensen, 1974-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Social conditions--Historiography.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Segregation--Historiography.
- Race discrimination--United States--Historiography.
- Race discrimination.
- Autobiography--African American authors.
- Autobiography.
- African Americans--Biography--History and criticism.
- African Americans--Biography.
- Historiography.
- African Americans--Segregation.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 176 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Autobiography and the Transformation of Historical Understanding 1
- 1 Subjectivity and the Felt Experience of History 13
- 2 Literary Techniques and Historical Understanding 36
- 3 African American Memoirists Remember Jim Crow 57
- 4 White Memoirists Remember Jim Crow 99
- Conclusion: Talking of Another World 136.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-169) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780820330693
- 0820330698
- OCLC:
- 173502700
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