Traumatic possessions: the body and memory in African American women's writing and performance
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Main Author: Griffiths, Jennifer L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville University of Virginia Press 2009
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-129) and index
"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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 134 p.)
ISBN:0813928834
0813928842
0813928958
9780813928838
9780813928845
9780813928951