A01=Sabine Brock
American
Amnesia
Author_Sabine Brock
Beutin
Black
Brock
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History
Memory?
Metscher
Sabine
Thomas
White
Wolfgang
Women's
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9783631335451
- Weight: 270g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 1999
- Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH
- Publication City/Country: DE
- Product Form: Paperback
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Reading a series of prose texts by 20th century white women writers ranging from The Making of Americans to Civil Wars this study interrogates a correlation between authors' subject positions as white and their textual investments in American history. It displaces the diffuse acceptance of whiteness as a given property by foregrounding it as a shared, and unquestioned feature of the white reader's and the text's consciousness. To trace the literary legacies of white amnesia about the Middle Passage is an urgent response to white women writers' participation in US-American historical mythology. At a point of convergence of Black Studies, American Studies and Gender Studies this investigation results in a profound denaturalization of what American history and American cultural memory may signify.
The Author: A graduate of Frankfurt University, Sabine Broeck received her habilitation from Humboldt-University, Berlin with, White Amnesia. Presently she teaches American Studies at the University of Bremen.
