Afterimages of slavery : essays on appearances in recent American films, literature, television and other media / edited by Marlene D. Allen and Seretha D. Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Allen Ahmed, Marlene, 1971-

Williams, Seretha D., 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery in literature.

American prose literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American prose literature.

American prose literature--21st century--History and criticism.

Slavery in mass media.

Physical Description:

vi, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2012]

Summary:

"Since the election of President Barack Obama, many pundits have declared that we are living in a "post-racial America," a culture where the legacy of slavery has been erased. The essays in this collection, however, point to a resurgence of the theme of slavery in American cultural artifacts from the late twentieth- and twenty-first centuries"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Reading and writing slavery. Meditation, misremembering, creativity, and healing in Zakes Mda's Cion / Seretha D. Williams

Black women's ghostly re-visions of history / Joanne Chassot

Inhabitants of borderlands: (an)other world of subjugation / Ula Gabrielle Gaha

"If I allow myself to listen": slavery, historiography, and historical audition in David Bradley's The Chaneysville incident / Nicole Brittingham Furlonge

Tricksterism, masquerades, and the legacy of the African diasporic past in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight robber / Marlene D. Allen

Written on the walls: reflections of shifting definitions of slavery and self in Toni Morrison's A mercy / Eugenia P. Bryan

The Laveau folk heroine: contemporary fiction revises the slave narrative / Tatia Jacobson Jordan

Visualizing and positioning slavery. Hottentot Venus: unsettling the linear time of history and science / Eljka Vrljuga

Hollywood's white legal heroes and the legacy of slave codes / Katie Rose Guest Pryal

The slave's cabin: from the back of the big house to the National Register of Historic Places / Angelita Reyes

"Commence the great work": the historical archive and unspeakable violence in Kyle Baker's Nat Turner / Jonathan W. Gray

A comic routine: the place of slavery in identity formation for the twenty-first century / Laura Mae Lindo

The slavery of the machine / Alexis Harley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780786464647

078646464X

OCLC:

761369376