附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
History Is Your Own Heartbeat: The Palimpsest Imperative in African American Fiction --The Sexual Is Historical: The Subject of Desire -- The Stillness That Comes to All: The Subject of Death -- Orphans of the One-Way Voyage: The Subject of Family -- A Legacy of History, An Enchantment of History: The Subject of the Present.
摘要:This study examines how cultural works contribute to social debates, how a particular representational form emerges out of a specific historical epoch, and how some intellectuals meditate on the issue of historical responsibility within contemporary American society.