The American Front Porch as a Lieu de Memoire in African American Literature

The American Front Porch as a Lieu de Memoire in African American Literature

308 pages· 2008· ISBN 9780549554332
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Using the works of Paul Gilroy, Houston Baker, Henry Louis Gates, Pierre Nora, Jan Assman, Thomas Gieryn and Gaston Bachelard this dissertation will argue that the space the porch represents is not only crucial to a Diaspora as a symbol of home, a place for language and a space of collective memory, but that it is also a place that was rescued from history through memory.

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