"Closer to the truth than any fact"
Subtitle: memoir, memory, and Jim Crow
By: Jennifer Jensen Wallach.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780820330693
Subjects: African Americans -- Social conditions -- Historiography; African Americans -- Segregation -- Historiography; Race discrimination -- United States -- Historiography; Autobiography -- African American authors; African Americans -- Biography -- History and criticism
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-169) and index.
Table of contents: title: Autobiography and the transformation of historical understanding; title: Subjectivity and the felt experience of history; title: Literary techniques and historical understanding; title: African American memoirists remember Jim Crow; title: White memoirists remember Jim Crow; title: Talking of another world.