Erasing Public Memory : Race, Aesthetics, and Cultural Amnesia in the Americas

by Braziel, Jana Evans

• ISBN13: 9780881460582
• ISBN10: 0881460583
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-08-30
• Publisher: Mercer Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Introduction : race, art, and humanistic disavowal : unraveling the historical nexus of race and aesthetics, refusing the erasure of public memory	p. 1
Genre, race, erasure : a genealogical critique of "American" autobiography	p. 35
Erasure and retrieval of public memory : artful deceit in Mary Johnston's Prisoners of hope and subtle disclosure in Pauline Bouve's Their shadows before	p. 71
An epistemology of ignorance : hierarchy, exclusion, and the failure of multiculturalism in the modern literary top 100	p. 118
Soul for sale? : Cuban counterpoint in Madrid	p. 157
Succor for the ailing Jewish body : images of Jewish racial degeneracy and Zionist cultural work in Palestine	p. 187
The pillory/pelourinho in open-air museums in the US and Brazil : a site of racism and racial reconciliation	p. 209
Re-tracing the unruly boundaries of the Jewish body in Barnett Newman's Stations of the cross	p. 243
Poetry : "Danger flammable," "When the snow arrived," "Nine innings to go"	p. 270
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