Cross-Gendering the Racial Memory
When Ernest Gaines chooses a woman as the individual subject for collective memorialization and the ideal medium of racial memory in his 1971 novel, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, he participates in a significant but overlooked genre of black masculine discourse, the composition of black au...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Association Française d'Etudes Américaines
2006-05-01
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Series: | Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/1007 |