Passages – Transitions – Intersections.
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Passages – Transitions – Intersections.

Southern, African American and Native American Fiction

  1. 229 pages
  2. English
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Passages – Transitions – Intersections.

Southern, African American and Native American Fiction

About this book

This study of collective American memory exposes the historical phenomenon of self-directed American imperialism, still frequently ignored or denied in the United States. Over the course of the 250 years of its history, this has taken the form of African American slavery, thwarted black motherhood, same-race slavery (both white and African American) as well as the extermination of indigenous American peoples. On the literary level, the study helps to broaden, or even modify, the present perspective on the oeuvres of four major American writers, i. e., William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, and Cormac McCarthy, by pointing to the intertwining of their themes, motifs, and techniques of writing to form an intricate pattern of the intertextualized collective memory of the American nation.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Body
  5. List of Abbreviations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction
  9. Part One: The Unspoken and the Unspeakable: Southern Taboos Aestheticized and Denegativized
  10. Chapter 1: The “Pearl Effect” of the Collective Amnesia of the South: Sisters, Brothers, and Fathers in Southern American Fiction
  11. Chapter 2: The Southern White Collective Subconscious: From William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury to Cormac McCarthy's Outer Dark
  12. Part Two: Sin and Redemption: Southern White and African American Patriarchies
  13. Chapter 3: Demythologizing the South: McCarthy's Suttree v. Faulkner's Sutpen
  14. Chapter 4: “But it's not love”: Collective Memory and Patriarchy in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and Toni Morrison's Love
  15. Part Three: Intra-racial Indenture and Slavery v. Gender and Racial Empowerment
  16. Chapter 5: Collective Memory and Re-Invention of Self in Toni Morrison's A Mercy
  17. Chapter 6: Southern Harlequinade and “the Signifying Monkey”: The (Un-)Known World of Edward P. Jones
  18. Part Four: Race‍(lessness) and Gender: “Miscuing” and “Signifying”
  19. Chapter 7: “Playing in the Dark” of Race and Gender in Morrison's Paradise
  20. Chapter 8: Collective Memory and Stereotyping in Faulkner's Light in August and Morrison's Paradise
  21. Chapter 9: A Dissolution of Otherness in Toni Morrison's Last Novel God Help The Child
  22. Part Five: Collective Memory and Trauma: African American Femininity and Motherhood
  23. Chapter 10: Thwarted Black Maternity in Morrison's Beloved and Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun
  24. Chapter 11: “Be‍[ware] the Furrow of his Brow”: Decolonization of Gender and Race in Morrison’s Paradise
  25. Part Six: Ethnicity and Assimilation: Historicity v. Ahistoricity
  26. Chapter 12: “Re-Memorying” in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Morrison's Song of Solomon, and Louise Erdrich's Tracks: Orality v. Literacy
  27. Chapter 13: Centripetal, Holistic and Curative: Collective Native American Memory in Erdrich's The Painted Drum
  28. Part Seven: Myth and Myth-making: Usable Past and the Burden of History
  29. Chapter 14: Ahistoricity as Ethnic Collective Memory in Erdrich's Native American Fiction: The Bingo Palace, Tracks and Love Medicine
  30. Chapter 15: History v. Myth: Collective American Amnesia in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in The West
  31. Conclusion
  32. Bibliography
  33. Index