Rewriting American History in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Metahistoricity, the Postcolonial Subject, and the Return of the Repressed.

Writing as an African American woman existing at the margins of American society in the mid 1970s, Mildred D. Taylor demonstrated a postmodern awareness of fictionality and history in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1976). Reworking African American history from the point of view and voice of a black...

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Published in:	Children's Literature in Education Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 333 - 347
Main Author:	Yoo, Hyun-Joo
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Sep2019
Subjects:	History of the Americas Postcolonialism Stereotypes Disidentification (Psychology) Taylor, Mildred
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost