TY - BOOK ID - 77864432 TI - History and memory in African-American culture AU - Fabre, GenevieĢve. AU - O'Meally, Robert G. PY - 1994 SN - 019802455X 1280443618 142373887X 0195359240 1601299419 9781423738879 9780195083965 0195083962 9780195083972 0195083970 9781280443619 9786610443611 6610443610 0195083962 0195083970 PB - New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - African Americans KW - African American arts. KW - American literature KW - African American literature (English) KW - Black literature (American) KW - Negro literature KW - Afro-American arts KW - Arts, African American KW - Negro arts KW - Ethnic arts KW - Black history KW - History. KW - Historiography. KW - African American authors. KW - Afro-American authors KW - Negro authors KW - African Americans history KW - history UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77864432 AB - As Nathan Huggins once stated, altering American history to account fully for the nation's black voices would change the tone and meaning--the frame and the substance--of the entire story. Rather than a sort of Pilgrim's Progress tale of bold ascent and triumph, American history with the black parts told in full would be transmuted into an existential tragedy, closer, Huggins said, to Sartre's No Exit than to the vision of life in Bunyan. The relation between memory and history has received increasing attention both from historians and from literary critics. In this volume, a group of leading ER -