Type of Document	Thesis
Author	Wholuba, Anita P.
URN	etd-07012003-170452
Title	“My Soul Looks Back”: Exhuming Buried (Hi)Stories in the Chaneysville Incident, Dessa Rose, and Beloved
Degree	Master of Arts
Department	English, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Maxine L. Montgomery Committee Chair Bonnie Braendlin Committee Member Darryl Dickson-Carr Committee Member
Keywords	Dessa Rose Incident Chaneysville Exuhuming Beloved
Date of Defense	2003-01-01
Availability	restricted
Abstract Scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. writes that “fact and fiction have always exerted a reciprocal effect on each other” (“Authenticity” 29). Authors of neo slave narratives – postmodern renderings of the slave experience – illustrate this reciprocation as they engage in the (re)telling of historical events from the privileged vantage of the present. This study will explore the techniques neo-slave narrative authors use to merge history with imagination in the creation of a fictionalized history. Although critics have already noted the existing relationship between history and fiction in these narratives, how authors finesse the line between history and imagination remains under explored. The primary texts in this study are Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Sherley Anne Williams’ Dessa Rose, and David Bradley’s The Chaneysville Incident. By examining the dynamics of the commingling of history and imagination, this study will contribute to an understanding of the role of rememory and/or embellishment in the neo slave narrative (sub)genre.
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