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The study aims to examine how mundane elements in Major’s novel serve as a memoir reflecting cultural contexts.

March 21, 2026

Every Minute of Every Day: The Banal as Memoir in Clarence Major’s Novel Such Was the Season

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The study aims to examine how mundane elements in Major’s novel serve as a memoir reflecting cultural contexts.
Analyzes the use of banal elements like commercials and anecdotes in the novel.
Links the narrative style to the cultural climate of the 1980s.
Explores parallels between the protagonist's memoir and the literary movement of black women writers.
Demonstrates that the mundane elements reveal deeper cultural insights.
Shows a connection between the narrative style and the 'post-protest' era.
Indicates significant parallels between the protagonist's memoir and broader literary trends.

Abstract

Abstract In “Every Minute of Every Day: The Banal as Memoir in Clarence Major’s Such Was the Season,” Kwakiutl L. Dreher illustrates how the novel’s use of the banal—in the form of commercials, anecdotes, and quiet spaces of in-between—lead to a survey of Major’s approach to what might be called memoir. Dreher links this reflective approach to the “post-protest” era of the conservative 1980s, which also realized a continuation of a creative outburst of literary production by black women writers that started in the 1970s, and contends that some parallels can be drawn between Annie Eliza’s (the protagonist of the novel) “memoir” and that literary movement.

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