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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Bibliographic Details
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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Table of Contents:
  • 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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