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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