Remembering Generations: Race and Family in Contemporary African American Fiction

by Ashraf H.A. Rushdy

Book Overview

Slavery is America's family secret, a partially hidden phantom that continues to haunt our national imagination. Remembering Generations explores how three contemporary African American writers artistically represent this notion in novels about the enduring effects of slavery on the descendants of slaves in the post-civil rights era.

Focusing on Gayl Jones's Corregidora (1975), David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807849170
• ISBN13: 9780807849170
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"