Cultural memory and deconstruction of the single story in Richard Wright’s Black Boy (American hunger)
This essay aims to analyze how the narrative management operated in the composition of Black Boy (American Hunger), by Richard Wright, takes part of the process of constitution of a cultural memory (ASSMANN, 1995) on African American experience. In addition, we discuss this cultural memory constitu...
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This essay aims to analyze how the narrative management operated in the composition of Black Boy (American Hunger), by Richard Wright, takes part of the process of constitution of a cultural memory (ASSMANN, 1995) on African American experience. In addition, we discuss this cultural memory constitution as a way of breaking with “the single story” (ADICHIE, 2009), which, in this case, means History made up in the white perspective excluding points of view that scape this ethnic group. To do so, we analyze some pieces from the text concentrating on the stories brought up to constitute the narrative fabric and how they reshape comprehensions about past and question the official History.
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| spelling | doaj.art-9288706fe9014887982f686a84f1a6852024-02-07T00:48:08ZengUniversidade do Estado da Bahia (UNEB)Babel2238-57542023-12-0113Cultural memory and deconstruction of the single story in Richard Wright’s Black Boy (American hunger)Ernani Hermes0Rosani Umbach1Universidade Federal de Santa MariaUniversidade Federal de Santa Maria This essay aims to analyze how the narrative management operated in the composition of Black Boy (American Hunger), by Richard Wright, takes part of the process of constitution of a cultural memory (ASSMANN, 1995) on African American experience. In addition, we discuss this cultural memory constitution as a way of breaking with “the single story” (ADICHIE, 2009), which, in this case, means History made up in the white perspective excluding points of view that scape this ethnic group. To do so, we analyze some pieces from the text concentrating on the stories brought up to constitute the narrative fabric and how they reshape comprehensions about past and question the official History. https://revistas.uneb.br/index.php/babel/article/view/17127Cultural memoryThe single storyNarrativeRichard Wright |
| spellingShingle | Ernani Hermes Rosani Umbach Cultural memory and deconstruction of the single story in Richard Wright’s Black Boy (American hunger) Babel Cultural memory The single story Narrative Richard Wright |
| title | Cultural memory and deconstruction of the single story in Richard Wright’s Black Boy (American hunger) |
| title_full | Cultural memory and deconstruction of the single story in Richard Wright’s Black Boy (American hunger) |
| title_fullStr | Cultural memory and deconstruction of the single story in Richard Wright’s Black Boy (American hunger) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cultural memory and deconstruction of the single story in Richard Wright’s Black Boy (American hunger) |
| title_short | Cultural memory and deconstruction of the single story in Richard Wright’s Black Boy (American hunger) |
| title_sort | cultural memory and deconstruction of the single story in richard wright s black boy american hunger |
| topic | Cultural memory The single story Narrative Richard Wright |
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