Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture /

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This study explores contemporary novels, films, performances, and reenactments that depict American slavery and its traumatic effects by invoking a time-travel paradigm to produce a representational strategy of "bodily epistemology." Disrupting the prevailing view of traumatic knowledge th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Woolfork, Lisa, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions
Slavery > Social aspects.
Slavery > Psychological aspects.
Slavery in motion pictures.
Slavery in literature.
Psychic trauma > Social aspects.
Popular culture.
Intellectual life.
Human body in popular culture.
Historical reenactments.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Reconstitution historique > États-Unis.
Esclavage au cinema.
Esclavage dans la litterature.
Corps humain dans la culture populaire.
Culture populaire > États-Unis.
Traumatisme psychique > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Esclavage > États-Unis > Aspect psychologique.
Historical reenactments > United States.
Popular culture > United States.
Psychic trauma > Social aspects > United States.
Slavery > United States > Psychological aspects.
Slavery > Social aspects > United States.
United States.
États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle.
United States > Social conditions > 1980-
United States > Intellectual life.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : go there to know there
  • Trauma and time travel
  • Touching scars, touching slavery : trauma, quilting, and bodily epistemology
  • Teach you a lesson, boy : endangered black male teens meet the slave past
  • Slave tourism and rememory
  • Ritual reenactments
  • Historical reenactments
  • Conclusion : a soul baby talks back.

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