Memory, Narrative, and Identity

by Singh, Amritjit; Skerrett, Joseph T., Jr.; Hogan Robert E.

• ISBN13: 9781555532031
• ISBN10: 1555532039
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-01-01
• Publisher: Northeastern Univ Pr

Summary

A look at how American writers of African, Mexican, Irish, Chinese, South Asian, Jewish, and Native American descent reclaim suppressed pasts, facilitating the emergence of newly empowering ethnic identities.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 3
Narrating Memory	p. 26
Rereading Photographs and Narratives in Ethnic Autobiography: Memory and Subjectivity in Mary Antin's The Promised Land	p. 45
The New Man and the Mediator: (Non-)Remembrance in Jewish-American Immigrant Narrative	p. 89
Memory and Silences in the Work of Tillie Olsen and Henry Roth	p. 114
Nostalgia, Amnesia, and Grandmothers: The Uses of Memory in Albert Murray, Sabine Ulibarri, Paula Gunn Allen, and Alice Walker	p. 128
X Rays of Irish America: Edwin O'Connor, Mary Gordon, and William Kennedy	p. 145
Expanding the Collective Memory: Charles W. Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman Tales	p. 164
Reading Carnival as an Archaeological Site for Memory in Paule Marshall's The Chosen Place, The Timeless People and Praisesong for the Widow	p. 179
"Tell me your earrings": Time and the Marvelous in Toni Morrison's Beloved	p. 198
Memory and Mother Love: Toni Morrison's Dyad	p. 212
Maxine Hong Kingston's Fake Books	p. 233
Memory and the Ethnic Self: Reading Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club	p. 261
Traveling Light: Immigration and Invisible Suitcases in M. G. Vassanji's The Gunny Sack	p. 278
Rediscovering Nineteenth-Century Mexican-American Autobiography	p. 305
Select Bibliography	p. 333
Editors and Contributors	p. 337
Index	p. 341
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