Prophetic Remembrance Black Subjectivity in African American and South African Trauma Narratives / Erica Still.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Still, Erica, 1977-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people in literature.

African Americans in literature.

Psychic trauma in literature.

Collective memory in literature.

Racism in literature.

South African fiction (English)--21st century--History and criticism.

South African fiction (English).

South African fiction (English)--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Prophetic Remembrance offers this comparative focus in reading these literatures together to address the question of what it means to remember and to recover from racial oppression.

Contents:

Introduction: toward a theory of prophetic remembrance

Ruptured wounds: the body of prophetic remembrance

Fugitive homes: the space of prophetic remembrance

Artful mourning: the language of prophetic remembrance

Resurrected scars: the time of prophetic remembrance

Conclusion: prophetic remembrance

race, religion, and the literary.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813936550

0813936551

9780813936574

0813936578

OCLC:

898050892