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(Re)memorying the past: The function of memory in three neo-slave narratives by Black women writers (Sherley Williams, Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	(Re)memorying the past: The function of memory in three neo-slave narratives by Black women writers (Sherley Williams, Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones)./
Author:	Noh, Jongjin.
Description:	215 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-03, Section: A, page: 0934.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-03A.
Subject:	Literature, American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3126808

(Re)memorying the past: The function of memory in three neo-slave narratives by Black women writers (Sherley Williams, Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones).
Noh, Jongjin.

(Re)memorying the past: The function of memory in three neo-slave narratives by Black women writers (Sherley Williams, Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones). - 215 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-03, Section: A, page: 0934.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Miami University, 2004.

In many contemporary black women writers' works, memory is an important trope for their fictional work. For them, inscribing American history of slavery viewed from their perspective has been a concern because mainstream historiography has often dismissed and excluded their experiences. I argue that Sherley Williams, Toni Morrison, and Gayl Jones create fictionalized memories of the characters to expose the horrors of slavery and represent how the characters recover a sense of self through telling. I interrogate how fictionalized memories function in each work by delving into the inner consciousness and lives of the enslaved people in and after slavery. Thus, I argue that their neo-slave narratives inform the reader of slavery as a revisonary history.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Literature, American.

(Re)memorying the past: The function of memory in three neo-slave narratives by Black women writers (Sherley Williams, Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones).
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520 $a In many contemporary black women writers' works, memory is an important trope for their fictional work. For them, inscribing American history of slavery viewed from their perspective has been a concern because mainstream historiography has often dismissed and excluded their experiences. I argue that Sherley Williams, Toni Morrison, and Gayl Jones create fictionalized memories of the characters to expose the horrors of slavery and represent how the characters recover a sense of self through telling. I interrogate how fictionalized memories function in each work by delving into the inner consciousness and lives of the enslaved people in and after slavery. Thus, I argue that their neo-slave narratives inform the reader of slavery as a revisonary history.
520 $a Chapter One outlines my theoretical readings and methodological approach to the black women writers' neo-slave narratives. I employ writings by such black literary and feminist critics as Angelyn Mitchell, Elizabeth Beaulieu, Barbara Smith, Deborah McDowell, Barbara Christian, and Hazel Carby. Their literary and critical discourses ground my argument about black women's empowerment and autonomy revealed in black women's work. Then, I refer to theoretical discourses on history and memory by Paul Ricoeur, Linda Hutcheon, Hayden White, Maurice Halbwachs, and Pierre Nora to explore the various forms of memory presented in black women writers' neo-slave narratives. In Chapter Two, I examine how Dessa in Williams's Dessa Rose (1986) uses her memory to formulate a counter-narrative against the white dominant history represented by Adam Nehemiah. I investigate the author's demonstration of how the protagonist Dessa's use of her memory disrupts Nehemiah's history writing. In Chapter Three, I explore the issue of memory and history in Morrison's Beloved (1987) by closely probing the characters' experience in slavery and post-traumatic life. I pay particular attention to the notion of rememory and collective memory to explain the function of memory in reconstructing Sethe's self. Chapter Four deals with Jones's Corregidora(1975), in which I examine the issue of cultural and familial transmission of memory and history in the four generations of black women. I examine through Ursa how devastating it is to carry on the haunting memories of the past handed down from her ancestors.
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