How Long to Read Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction

How Long Does it Take to Read Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction?

It takes the average reader 4 hours to read Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction by Keith Byerman

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

With close readings of more than twenty novels by writers including Ernest Gaines, Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson, Gloria Naylor, and John Edgar Wideman, Keith Byerman examines the trend among African American novelists of the late twentieth century to write about black history rather than about their own present. Employing cultural criticism and trauma theory, Byerman frames these works as survivor narratives that rewrite the grand American narrative of individual achievement and the march of democracy. The choice to write historical narratives, he says, must be understood historically. These writers earned widespread recognition for their writing in the 1980s, a period of African American commercial success, as well as the economic decline of the black working class and an increase in black-on-black crime. Byerman contends that a shared experience of suffering joins African American individuals in a group identity, and writing about the past serves as an act of resistance against essentialist ideas of black experience shaping the cultural discourse of the present. Byerman demonstrates that these novels disrupt the temptation in American society to engage history only to limit its significance or to crown successful individuals while forgetting the victims.

How long is Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction?

Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction by Keith Byerman is 240 pages long, and a total of 60,000 words.

This makes it 81% the length of the average book. It also has 73% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 27 minutes to read Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction aloud.

What Reading Level is Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction?

Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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