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ERIC Number: EJ538935
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0010-0994
Cultural Narratives Passed On: African American Mourning Stories.
Holloway, Karla F. C.
College English, v59 n1 p32-40 Jan 1997
Rehearses some 20th-century narratives as they have appeared in United States history and as they have been represented in African-American literature. Suggests that some of these narratives are insufficiently critical in their construction of stereotypes or in their over-romanticized notions of racial memory, which mask the complications of color and racial identity in the United States. (TB)
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Black Culture, Black Literature, Blacks, Critical Thinking, Death, Ethnic Stereotypes, Grief, Higher Education, Personal Narratives, United States History, United States Literature
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: African Americans