Traumatic Possessions : The Body and Memory in African American Women's Writing and Performance /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Griffiths, Jennifer L., 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
African American women in literature.
Memory in literature.
Human body in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "The quick gasp of sympathy": trauma and interracial witnessing in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose
  • Betrayal trauma and the test of complicity in Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus
  • Between women: trauma, witnessing, and the legacy of interracial rape in Robbie Mccauley's Sally's rape
  • Uncanny spaces: trauma, cultural memory, and female body in Gayl Jones's Corregidora
  • "I have never seen a movie like that": traumatic memory and the "acceleration of history" in Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992.

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