Critical memory : public spheres, African American writing, and Black fathers and sons in America

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Title:

Critical memory : public spheres, African American writing, and Black fathers and sons in America

Author:

Baker, Houston A., Jr., 1943-

Personal Author:

Baker, Houston A., Jr., 1943-

Publication Information:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2001]

Physical Description:

xv, 75 pages ; 23 cm.

Series:

Georgia Southern University Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt lecture series ; no. 8

Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt lecture series ; no. 8.

Language:

English

Contents:

Black modernity: kitchen memories, likable black boys, and the American south -- Failed memory: black majority modernism and Mr. Ellison's Invisible man -- Words for black fathers and sons in America: symbolic politics and a Million man march -- End thought: "think of the days of the past, learn from the past".

Subject Term:

African Americans -- Social conditions.

African American men -- Social conditions.

Fathers and sons -- United States.

African Americans -- Intellectual life.

Memory -- Social aspects -- United States.

American literature -- African American authors.

African American men in literature.

Fathers and sons in literature.

Racism in literature.

Geographic Term:

United States -- Race relations.