Practices of Imagination: Learning from the Vision of Thadious Davis

2019/08/18 by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Historical and Literary Studies

paper · doi:10.1080/00497878.2019.1639506

openalex publication_date 2019/08/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

In her 1988 Essay “Expanding the Limits: The Intersection of Race and Region,” Thadious Davis traces late twentieth-century black writers’ acts of what she terms “historical imagination,” in which ...

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• Thadious Davis [wikipedia]

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