Outward evil, inward battle
Outward evil, inward battle human memory in literature / [electronic resource] :
edited by Benjamin Hart Fishkin, Adaku T. Ankumah, Festus Fru Ndeh, Bill F. Ndi.
- Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2013. [Oxford, England] : Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective Mankon, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, [2013]
- 1 online resource (1 PDF (xx, 215 pages).)
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : towards a paradigm of memory in literature -- Section 1. Power -- Quakers, memory & the past in literature / Bill F. Ndi -- The power of memory : crossroads in works by Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and August Wilson / Benjamin Hart Fishkin -- Section . Music -- Memory, the blues, and African American slave narratives / Loretta S. Burns -- It rains inside : parenting and music in works by William Faulkner, August Wilson, and Sherman Alexie / Benjamin Hart Fishkin -- Section 3. Resistance -- Unwavering insubordination : rebellion & memory in the letters of Elizabeth Hooton / Bill F. Ndi -- Memory and resistance in the poetry of Gcina Mhlophe / Adaku T. Ankumah -- Section 4. Trauma -- Veiling the past : memory and identity in Edwidge Danticat's The dew breaker / Adaku T. Ankumah -- Memorizing the dark : Margaret Walkerand Toni Morrison compress African American time and space in poetry and fiction / Eleanor J. Blount -- Section 5. Cultural identity -- There's no place like home : cultural memory in Toni Morrison's Tar baby and Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes and memory / Rhonda Collier -- "Go back and get it" : spirit possession as rite of passage and a medium of self-reinvention in contemporary African diasporic literature / Festus Fru Ndeh -- Index.
This book is a timely humanistic touch to memory studies. It uses literature as a laboratory for the workings of the mind, and characters as the subjects of human experimentation and diagnostics. This book considers authors from different societies and historical periods. The book is a refreshing illumination on the functioning of human memory. It complements the work of neuroscientists who seek to rationalize the workings of the same. Drawing from various ideas on memory, this rich and authoritative volume results from wide-ranging endeavors centered on the common fact that tracking memory in.
9789956790456
Memory.
Memory in literature.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
PN56.M44 / O984 2013
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : towards a paradigm of memory in literature -- Section 1. Power -- Quakers, memory & the past in literature / Bill F. Ndi -- The power of memory : crossroads in works by Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and August Wilson / Benjamin Hart Fishkin -- Section . Music -- Memory, the blues, and African American slave narratives / Loretta S. Burns -- It rains inside : parenting and music in works by William Faulkner, August Wilson, and Sherman Alexie / Benjamin Hart Fishkin -- Section 3. Resistance -- Unwavering insubordination : rebellion & memory in the letters of Elizabeth Hooton / Bill F. Ndi -- Memory and resistance in the poetry of Gcina Mhlophe / Adaku T. Ankumah -- Section 4. Trauma -- Veiling the past : memory and identity in Edwidge Danticat's The dew breaker / Adaku T. Ankumah -- Memorizing the dark : Margaret Walkerand Toni Morrison compress African American time and space in poetry and fiction / Eleanor J. Blount -- Section 5. Cultural identity -- There's no place like home : cultural memory in Toni Morrison's Tar baby and Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes and memory / Rhonda Collier -- "Go back and get it" : spirit possession as rite of passage and a medium of self-reinvention in contemporary African diasporic literature / Festus Fru Ndeh -- Index.
This book is a timely humanistic touch to memory studies. It uses literature as a laboratory for the workings of the mind, and characters as the subjects of human experimentation and diagnostics. This book considers authors from different societies and historical periods. The book is a refreshing illumination on the functioning of human memory. It complements the work of neuroscientists who seek to rationalize the workings of the same. Drawing from various ideas on memory, this rich and authoritative volume results from wide-ranging endeavors centered on the common fact that tracking memory in.
9789956790456
Memory.
Memory in literature.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
PN56.M44 / O984 2013