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Closer to the Truth Than Any Fact: Memoir, Memory, and Jim Crow Jennifer Jensen Wallach
Closer to the Truth Than Any Fact: Memoir, Memory, and Jim Crow
Jennifer Jensen Wallach
This study articulates an approach to using memoirs as instruments of historical understanding. 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.
176 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | July 15, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9780820330693 |
| Publishers | University of Georgia Press |
| Pages | 192 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 19 mm · 412 g |
| Language | English |
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