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"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 (1981), and Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979), Ashraf Rushdy begins by situating these works in their cultural moment of production and highlighting the ways in which they…
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2 editions- Paperback · English · 2000The University of North Carolina Press · 224 pages · 9780807849170
- Hardcover · English · 2000The University of North Carolina Press · 224 pages · 9780807826010
African American authorsAfrican American families in literatureAfrican AmericansAfrican Americans in literatureAmerican Domestic fictionAmerican fictionDomestic fiction, AmericanFirst person narrative