Possessing the Past : Trauma, Imagination, and Memory in Post-Plantation Southern Literature /

Employing recent theories of memory from multiple areas of study, Possessing the Past illuminates the tangled relationships among trauma, fantasy, and the public sphere, and their impact on the "South" in imagination and in reality. Focusing on the roles that narrative and fantasy play in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hinrichsen, Lisa, 1978-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Psychisches Trauma > Motiv
Erinnerung > Motiv
Literatur
Psychic trauma in literature.
Memory in literature.
Literature.
American literature.
Memoire dans la litterature.
Traumatisme psychique dans la litterature.
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism.
USA > Südstaaten
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Dans la litterature.
Southern States > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Memory in transit : mourning, memorialization, and the work of fantasy in the U.S. south
  • Trauma, testimony, and Temple Drake in Sanctuary and Requiem for a nun
  • Wanting magic : fantasy, fiction, and cultural capital in A streetcar named Desire
  • Southern autobiography, wound culture, and the politics of victimhood
  • Visions and revisions of Vietnam : misrecognition, memory, and the meaning of war
  • Imagining otherwise : the post-plantation multicultural imagination
  • Turning south again : a meditation on repetition, renewal, and remembering.

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