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Embodying American slavery in contemporary culture / Lisa Woolfork.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Woolfork, Lisa, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Social aspects--United States.
- Slavery.
- Slavery--United States--Psychological aspects.
- Psychic trauma--Social aspects--United States.
- Psychic trauma.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- Human body in popular culture.
- Slavery in literature.
- Slavery in motion pictures.
- Historical reenactments--United States.
- Historical reenactments.
- United States--Intellectual life.
- United States.
- United States--Social conditions--1980-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 that claims that traumatic events are irretrievable and accessible only through oblique reference, these novels and films circumvent the notion of indirect reference by depicting a replaying of the past, forcing present-day protagonists to witness and participate in traumatic histories that for them are neither dead nor past. Lisa Woolfork cogently analyzes how these works deploy a representational strategy that challenges the divide between past and present, imparting to their recreations of American slavery a physical and emotional energy to counter America's apathetic or amnesiac attitude about the trauma of the slave past.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-221) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613155634
- 9781283155632
- 128315563X
- 9780252092961
- 0252092961
- OCLC:
- 785781218
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