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Holloway, Karla F. C. – College English, 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…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Black Culture, Black Literature, Blacks