Author : Stefanie Sievers
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 3825839192
Liberating Narratives by Stefanie Sievers Pdf
Three contemporary novels of slavery - Margaret Walker's Jubilee (1966), Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose (1986) and Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987) - are the central focus of Liberating Narratives. In significantly different ways that reflect their individual and socio-political contexts of origin, these three novels can all be read as critiques of historical representation and as alternative spaces for remembrance - 'sites of memory' - that attempt to shift the conceptual ground on which our knowledge of the past is based.