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Publication Name
Closer to the Truth Than Any Fact
Title
Closer to the Truth Than Any Fact
Subtitle
Memoir, Memory, and Jim Crow
EAN
9780820330693
ISBN
9780820330693
Release Year
2008
Release Date
30/07/2008
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Weight
445g
Genre
History
UPC
9780820330693
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Book Title
Closer to the Truth than Any Fact: Memoir, Memory, and Jim Crow
Author
Jennifer Jensen Wallach
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Topic
Literature, History
Number of Pages
176 Pages

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How should historians use autobiography?Although historians frequently use memoirs as source material, too often they confine such usage to the anecdotal, and there is little methodological literature regarding the genre's possibilities and limitations. This study articulates an approach to using memoirs as instruments of historical understanding. Jennifer Jensen Wallach applies these principles to a body of memoirs about life in the American South during Jim Crow segregation, including works by Zora Neale Hurston, Willie Morris, Lillian Smith, Henry Louis Gates Jr., William Alexander Percy, and Richard Wright.Wallach argues that the field of autobiography studies, which is currently dominated by literary critics, needs a new theoretical framework that allows historians, too, to benefit from the interpretation of life writing. Her most provocative claim is that, due to the aesthetic power of literary language, skilled creative writers are uniquely positioned to capture the complexities of another time and another place. Through techniques such as metaphor and irony, memoirists collectively give their readers an empathetic understanding of life during the era of segregation. Although these reminiscences bear certain similarities, it becomes clear that the South as it was remembered by each is hardly the same place.

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University of Georgia Press
ISBN-13
9780820330693
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Book Title
Closer to the Truth than Any Fact: Memoir, Memory, and Jim Crow
Author
Jennifer Jensen Wallach
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature, History
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
176 Pages

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Jennifer Jensen Wallach
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United States

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