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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Main Author: Marlon B. Ross
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française d'Etudes Américaines 2006-05-01
Series:Transatlantica
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/1007
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