Cultural memory and deconstruction of the single story in Richard Wright’s Black Boy (American hunger)

Auteurs-es

Mots-clés :

Cultural memory, The single story, Narrative, Richard Wright

Résumé

This essay aims to analyze how the narrative management operated in the composition of Black Boy (American Hunger), by Richard Wright, takes part of the process of constitution of a cultural memory (ASSMANN, 1995) on African American experience. In addition, we discuss this cultural memory constitution as a way of breaking with “the single story” (ADICHIE, 2009), which, in this case, means History made up in the white perspective excluding points of view that scape this ethnic group. To do so, we analyze some pieces from the text concentrating on the stories brought up to constitute the narrative fabric and how they reshape comprehensions about past and question the official History.

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Bibliographies de l'auteur-e

Ernani Hermes, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Doutorando e Mestre em Estudos Literários pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. 

Rosani Umbach, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Professora Titular da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), editora do periódico Literatura e Autoritarismo e bolsista de produtividade em pesquisa do CNPq (PQ-1C). Doutora em Neuere Deutsche Literatur pela Freie Universität Berlin, Alemanha, com pós-doutorado na Universidade de Tübingen, Alemanha. 

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ASSMANN, Jan. Collective memory and cultural identity. New german critique, n. 65, p. 125-133, 1995. Disponível em : < https://www.academia.edu/download/28394739/assman_collective_memory.pdf >. Acesso em 16/02/2022.

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HALBWACHS, Maurice. A memória coletiva. Trad. Beatriz Sidou. São Paulo: Centauro, 2003.

HOOKS, bell. Bone Black: a memoir of childhood. New York: Routladge, 1996.

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SCHEIN, Richard H. After Charlottesville: Reflections on landscape, white supremacy and white hegemony. Southeastern geographer, v. 58, n. 1, p. 10-13, 2018.

WRIGHT, Richard. Black Boy (American Hunger): A record of childhood and youth. 6th ed. New York: Harper Collins, 2005.

Publié-e

2023-12-30

Comment citer

HERMES, E.; UMBACH, R. Cultural memory and deconstruction of the single story in Richard Wright’s Black Boy (American hunger). Babel: Revista Eletrônica de Línguas e Literaturas Estrangeiras, Alagoinhas, BA, v. 13, p. e17127, 2023. Disponível em: https://www.revistas.uneb.br/index.php/babel/article/view/17127. Acesso em: 14 mai. 2024.