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Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma : Confronting Race, Gender, and Violence in American Literature /

"An extraordinary engagement with trauma and its witness across American literature"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wales Freedman, Eden (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: reading trauma in (African) American literature
  • "To be free to say so": witnessing trauma in the narratives of Harriet Jacobs, Sojourner Truth, and Elizabeth Keckley
  • "You cant understand it": William Faulkner's anti-witnessing of race and gender
  • "Yuh got tuh go there tuh know there": dual- and communal witnessing in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Margaret Walker's Jubilee
  • "This thing we have done together": haunted witnessing in the novels of Toni Morrison and Jesmyn Ward
  • Conclusion: dual-witnessing as revolution
  • Glossary of terms
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.