Intertextualizing Collective American Memory - Southern, African American and Native American Fiction

This study of collective American memory exposes the historical phenomenon of self-directed American imperialism, still frequently ignored or denied in the United States. Over the course of the 250 years of its history, this has taken the form of African American slavery, thwarted black motherhood, same-race slavery (both white and African American) as well as the extermination of indigenous American peoples. On the literary level, the study helps to broaden, or even modify, the present perspective on the oeuvres of four major American writers, i. e., William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, and Cormac McCarthy, by pointing to the intertwining of their themes, motifs, and techniques of writing to form an intricate pattern of the intertextualized collective memory of the American nation.

About the author

Gräyna M. T. Branny is Associate Professor at the Jesuit University Ignatianum in Kraków, Poland. She has almost 100 publications to her name, mostly in Southern studies (William Faulkner, William Styron, Walker Percy, Cormac McCarthy), Joseph Conrad studies, African American literature (Toni Morrison) and Native American one (Louise Erdrich).

Product details

• Authors: Gra¿yna Maria Teresa Branny, Grazyna Maria Teresa Branny
• Publisher: V&R unipress
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.07.2024
• EAN: 9783847117179
• ISBN: 978-3-8471-1717-9
• No. of pages: 229
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 13 mm x 232 mm
• Weight: 354 g
• Series: Passages - Transitions - Intersections; Passages – Transitions – Intersections 012
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies