1 option
Traumatic possessions : the body and memory in African American women's writing and performance / Jennifer L. Griffiths.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Griffiths, Jennifer L., 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--African American authors.
- American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Psychic trauma in literature.
- Human body in literature.
- Memory in literature.
- African American women in literature.
- American literature--Women authors.
- Physical Description:
- x, 134 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813928838
- 0813928834
- 9780813928845
- 0813928842
- 9780813928951
- 0813928958
- OCLC:
- 391412715
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.