Title: Reconstructing memory :
Authors: Hord, Fred L.
Date: 1991
Publisher: Third World Press,
Physical description: xii, 194 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: P
Contents: 1. Classical colonialism and African-American internal colonialism: connections -- 2. Colonial and African-American literary analyses: connections -- 3. Douglass' "Power of truth" against "Irresponsible power" -- 4. Dunbar's "Entire Truthfulness": "Stric'ly true" -- 5. Visible nationalism in invisible man -- 6. Someplace to be a Black girl -- 7. Coming out of colonization: the cotillion -- 8. Two Black poets and responsible power: the power of truth -- 9. Conclusion.
Notes: Introduction by Houston A. Baker.
Subject headings (LCSH): African Americans in literature; African Americans--Intellectual life; African Americans--Race identity.; American literature--African American authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.; American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.; American literature--Afro-American authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.; Criticism--United States; Memory in literature