Forgetting to Remember: The Performance of Memory, History, and Gender in John O. Killens' "The Cotillion: Or One Good Bull is Half the Herd"

This article considers John Oliver Killens' novel, The Cotillion: Or One Good Bull is Half the Herd, in the context of explorations of memory in the African American literary tradition and to a lesser degree trauma studies and argues that Killens' novel, often dismissed or overlooked for i...

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African American literature
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American literature
Analysis
Black history
Black literature
Collective memory
Contredanse
Gender
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Memory
Narrative history
Narratives
Nationalism
Novelists
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Political Science
Politics
Regional and Cultural Studies
Resistance
Social Sciences
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Trauma
United States history
Works
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