Closer to the Truth Than Any Fact: Memoir, Memory, and Jim Crow Tapa dura - 2008

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Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2008. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed to previous owner by author in ink at title page. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". x, 176pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black cloth over boards with spine lettered in white. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Although historians frequently use memoirs as source material, too often they confine such usage to the anecdotal, and there is little methodological literature regarding the genre's possibilities and limitations. This study articulates an approach to using memoirs as instruments of historical understanding. Jennifer Jensen Wallach applies these principles to a body of memoirs about life in the American South during Jim Crow segregation, including works by Zora Neale Hurston, Willie Morris, Lillian Smith, Henry Louis Gates Jr., William Alexander Percy, and Richard Wright. Wallach argues that the field of… Leer más

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Hardback. New. Argues that the field of autobiography studies, which is dominated by literary critics, needs a theoretical framework that allows historians, too, to benefit from the interpretation of life writing.

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Hardback. New. Argues that the field of autobiography studies, which is dominated by literary critics, needs a theoretical framework that allows historians, too, to benefit from the interpretation of life writing.

Univ of Georgia Pr, 2008. Hardcover. New. 176 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches.

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