The Keloids We Heal : Trauma, Spirituality, and Black Modernity in Literature.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ohmer, Sarah Soanirina.

Series:

Transformations: Womanist Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Black authors--History and criticism.

Literature.

Literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Women authors, Black--America.

Women authors, Black.

Women, Black, in literature.

Healing in literature.

Decolonization in literature.

Civilization, Modern, in literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2025.

Summary:

"The corporeal and spiritual healing in literature by women of colors can be seen to redefine modern thought and printed text. Sarah Soanirina Ohmer traces the impact of colonization and enslavement on Black women and Black women's contributions to colonial and nineteenth century literature in the US, Brazil, and Cuba. Drawing on intersectional analysis, Ohmer focuses on portrayals of trauma and spirituality in works by Toni Morrison, Conceição Evaristo, Maryse Conde, Gloria Anzaldúa, the Quilombhoje poets, and María de los Reyes Castillo. Ohmer compares literature from different countries along four thematic pathways: ghosts, mirrors, naming, and motherhood. Her analysis unlocks the literature's power to heal through gut-wrenching descriptions of wounds and thrilling passages of hope and liberation. Throughout, Ohmer weaves in her life story as a Black woman as she reflects on how colonialism, racism, sexism, and capitalism have impacted her work, traumas, and faith journey"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Keloids of modernity

Founders of spiritual transnational homes : Black female trailblazers of literature in the Americas

From metaphorical conjure women to conjure theory : intersectional approaches to the study of modernity and trauma in the Americas

Listening to spirit and healing inherited trauma

Picking up the pieces : anti-naming and postslavery shock

"And now we see" : breaking down mirrors of internal colonization

Recovering from (m)otherhood : reframing displaced maternal identities

Conclusion. Healing love.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780252047763

0252047761

OCLC:

1513422654