Traumatic possessions : the body and memory in African American women's writing and performance /

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Griffiths (English, New York Institute of Technology, Manhattan) looks at how African American writers and playwrights have explored ruptures in memory after a traumatic experience and attempted to develop creative strategies for understanding the inscription of trauma on the body in a racialized cu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Griffiths, Jennifer L., 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.
Temas:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Human body in literature.
Memory in literature.
African American women in literature.
Écrits de femmes américains > Histoire et critique.
Traumatisme psychique dans la littérature.
Corps humain dans la littérature.
Mémoire dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
American literature > African American authors.
American literature > Women authors.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
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  • Betrayal trauma and the test of complicity in Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus
  • Between women: trauma, witnessing, and the legacy of interracial rape in Robbie Mccauley's Sally's rape
  • Uncanny spaces: trauma, cultural memory, and female body in Gayl Jones's Corregidora
  • "I have never seen a movie like that": traumatic memory and the "acceleration of history" in Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992.

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