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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Woolfork, Lisa, 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Since 1980
Slavery > Social aspects > United States.
Slavery > United States > Psychological aspects.
Psychic trauma > Social aspects > United States.
Popular culture > United States.
Human body in popular culture.
Slavery in literature.
Slavery in motion pictures.
Historical reenactments > United States.
Esclavage > États-Unis > Aspect psychologique.
Traumatisme psychique > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Culture populaire > États-Unis.
Corps humain dans la culture populaire.
Esclavage dans la littérature.
Esclavage au cinéma.
Reconstitution historique > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Historical reenactments
Human body in popular culture
Intellectual life
Popular culture
Psychic trauma > Social aspects
Slavery in literature
Slavery in motion pictures
Slavery > Psychological aspects
Slavery > Social aspects
Social conditions
United States > Intellectual life.
United States > Social conditions > 1980-
États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle.
United States
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