"If you go there - you who was never there:" On Contemporary Uses of the Memory of Slavery
Kenneth Warren, in his controversial What Was African American Literature? (2011), argues that while African American literature was once “prospective,” contemporary black writing is “retrospective” and its obsessive preoccupation with the past is the result of nostalgia for the supposedly unified a...
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Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Iperstoria |
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| Online Access: | https://iperstoria.it/article/view/576 |