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

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

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Wales Freedman, Eden (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2020]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Race in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle.
Traumatisme psychique dans la litterature.
Race dans la litterature.
American literature > 20th century.
Critiques litteraires.
Literary criticism.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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