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020			_a9789956790456
020			_z9789956790166
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
050		4	_aPN56.M44 _bO984 2013
245	0	0	_aOutward evil, inward battle _h[electronic resource] : _bhuman memory in literature / _cedited by Benjamin Hart Fishkin, Adaku T. Ankumah, Festus Fru Ndeh, Bill F. Ndi.
260			_aBaltimore, Maryland : _bProject Muse, _c2013. _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
260			_a[Oxford, England] : _bDistributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective _c _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
260			_aMankon, Cameroon : _bLangaa Research & Publishing CIG, _c[2013] _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (1 PDF (xx, 215 pages).)
500			_aIssued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction : 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.
520			_aThis 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.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aMemory.
650		0	_aMemory in literature.
655		0	_aElectronic books.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
700	1		_aNdi, Bill F., _eeditor.
700	1		_aNdeh, Festus Fru, _eeditor.
700	1		_aAnkumah, Adaku T., _eeditor.
700	1		_aFishkin, Benjamin Hart, _eeditor.
710	2		_aProject Muse, _edistributor.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9956790168 _z9789956790166
710	2		_aProject Muse.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9789956790456/
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c34463 _d34463