Corporeal legacies in the US south : memory and embodiment in contemporary culture / Christopher Lloyd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lloyd, Christopher, 1987- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory--Social aspects--Southern States.

Memory.

Racism in popular culture--Southern States--History--21st century.

Racism in popular culture.

History.

Memory--Social aspects.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

xii, 226 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Summary:

This book examines the ways in which the histories of racial violence, from slavery onwards, are manifest in representations of the body in twenty-first-century culture set in the US South. Christopher Lloyd focuses on corporeality in literature and film to detail the workings of cultural memory in the present. Drawing on the fields of Southern Studies, Memory Studies and Black Studies, the book also engages psychoanalysis, Animal Studies and posthumanism to revitalize questions of the racialized body. Lloyd traces corporeal legacies in the US South through novels by Jesmyn Ward, Kathryn Stockett and others, alongside film and television such as Beasts of the Southern Wild and The Walking Dead. In all, the book explores the ways in which bodies in contemporary southern culture bear the traces of racial regulation and injury.

ISBN:

3319962043

9783319962047

OCLC:

1041529471