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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--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Psychic trauma in literature.
- Human body in literature.
- Memory in literature.
- African American women in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (145 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In focusing specifically and exclusively on the relation of trauma to race and on the influence of racism on the creation and reception of narrative testimony, this book distinguishes itself from previous studies of the literatures of trauma.
- 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:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613585387
- 9781280490156
- 1280490152
- 9780813928951
- 0813928958
- OCLC:
- 753977939
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