History and Memory in African-American Culture

by Fabre, Genevieve (Ed.) / O'Meally, Robert (Ed.) Fabre, Genevieve (Ed.) / O'Meally, Robert (Ed.)

Book Overview

As Nathan Huggins once stated, altering American history to account fully for the nation's black voices would change the tone and meaning--the frame and the substance--of the entire story. Rather than a sort of Pilgrim's Progress tale of bold ascent and triumph, American history with the black parts told in full would be transmuted into an existential tragedy, closer, Huggins said, to Sartre's No Exit than to the vision of life in Bunyan.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195083970
• ISBN13: 9780195083972
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"