William Strickland : : Architect and Engineer, 1788-1854 / / Agnes Addison Gilchrist.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Gilchrist, Agnes Addison,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]; ©1950
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Anniversary Collection
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (168 p.) :; 51 illus.

In Against Amnesia, Nancy J. Peterson addresses the ongoing postmodernist debate over the possibility and relevance of documentary and official histories. Drawing on Adrienne Rich's claim that women's literature and multicultural literature vigorously resist the amnesia and nostalgia that characterize mainstream North American culture, Peterson examines the struggles toward collective memory in a wealth of contemporary women's writing. Peterson's in-depth analyses of selected works by Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, Irena Klepfisz, Joy Kogawa, and other contemporary women writers illustrate the ways in which these authors recover and represent the historical memories attached to their racial/ethnic backgrounds. Their works probe traumatic moments in the marginalized histories of minority peoples, including Native American genocide and dispossession; African American slavery, migration, and displacement; the Holocaust; and the internment of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II. Peterson contends that these writers employ literary strategies that call attention to the gaps and silences of official histories. At the same time, these literary strategies allow the authors to narrate resonant counterhistories. Rejecting the playfully imaginative treatment of history found in typical postmodern novels, these contemporary women writers seek to reconstruct historical narratives in their texts and thereby reinvigorate historical memory in contemporary American culture.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of Plates -- Chapter I. Life -- Chapter II. Character -- Chapter III. Architectural Style -- Appendices -- A. A Chronologic, Bibliographic and Descriptive Catalogue of the Architectural and Engineering Work of William Strickland from 1804 to 1854 -- B. Contents of the Strickland Portfolio of Drawings in the Tennessee State Library -- C. Work As An Artist -- D. List Of Published Writings -- E. List Of Portraits Of William Strickland, His Father And His Wife -- F. Family, Residences, And Newspaper Obituaries -- Index