Download the fantastic book titled Closer to the Truth Than Any Fact written by Jennifer Jensen Wallach, available in its entirety in both PDF and EPUB formats for online reading. This page includes a concise summary, a preview of the book cover, and detailed information about "Closer to the Truth Than Any Fact", which was released on 25 February 2010. We suggest perusing the summary before initiating your download. This book is a top selection for enthusiasts of the Social Science genre.
Summary of Closer to the Truth Than Any Fact by Jennifer Jensen Wallach PDF
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.
Detail About Closer to the Truth Than Any Fact PDF
- Author : Jennifer Jensen Wallach
- Publisher : University of Georgia Press
- Genre : Social Science
- Total Pages : 192 pages
- ISBN : 0820337021
- Release Date : 25 February 2010
- PDF File Size : 52,6 Mb
- Language : English
- Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews
Clicking on the GET BOOK button will initiate the downloading process of Closer to the Truth Than Any Fact by Jennifer Jensen Wallach. This book is available in ePub and PDF format with a single click unlimited downloads.