Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture - Rilegato

Woolfork, Lisa

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ISBN 10: 0252033906 ISBN 13: 9780252033902

Casa editrice: Univ of Illinois Pr, 2008

Riassunto

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.

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L'autore:

Lisa Woolfork is an associate professor of English at the University of Virginia.

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Book by Woolfork Lisa

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Illinois Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0252033906
• ISBN 13: 9780252033902
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 233