Closer to the Truth Than Any Fact: Memoir, Memory, and Jim Crow

Author/Contributor(s):	Wallach, Jennifer Jensen
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	04/01/2010
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.