Embodying American slavery in contemporary culture /
Woolfork, Lisa, 1970-
Embodying American slavery in contemporary culture / Lisa Woolfork. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-221) and index.
Introduction : go there to know there -- Trauma and time travel -- Touching scars, touching slavery : trauma, quilting, and bodily epistemology -- Teach you a lesson, boy : endangered black male teens meet the slave past -- Slave tourism and rememory -- Ritual reenactments -- Historical reenactments -- Conclusion : a soul baby talks back.
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 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. --From publisher's description.
English.
9780252092961 epub 0252092961 cloth : alk. paper 9786613155634 6613155632
22573/ctt1c9sxh JSTOR
2019718674
Since 1980
Slavery--Social aspects--United States.
Slavery--Psychological aspects.--United States
Psychic trauma--Social aspects--United States.
Popular culture--United States.
Human body in popular culture.
Slavery in literature.
Slavery in motion pictures.
Historical reenactments--United States.
Esclavage--Aspect psychologique.--États-Unis
Traumatisme psychique--Aspect social--États-Unis.
Culture populaire--États-Unis.
Corps humain dans la culture populaire.
Esclavage dans la littérature.
Esclavage au cinéma.
Reconstitution historique--États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Slavery.
Historical reenactments.
Human body in popular culture.
Intellectual life.
Popular culture.
Psychic trauma--Social aspects.
Slavery in literature.
Slavery in motion pictures.
Slavery--Psychological aspects.
Slavery--Social aspects.
Social conditions
United States--Intellectual life.
United States--Social conditions--1980-
États-Unis--Vie intellectuelle.
United States.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
E441
306.3/62
Embodying American slavery in contemporary culture / Lisa Woolfork. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-221) and index.
Introduction : go there to know there -- Trauma and time travel -- Touching scars, touching slavery : trauma, quilting, and bodily epistemology -- Teach you a lesson, boy : endangered black male teens meet the slave past -- Slave tourism and rememory -- Ritual reenactments -- Historical reenactments -- Conclusion : a soul baby talks back.
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 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. --From publisher's description.
English.
9780252092961 epub 0252092961 cloth : alk. paper 9786613155634 6613155632
22573/ctt1c9sxh JSTOR
2019718674
Since 1980
Slavery--Social aspects--United States.
Slavery--Psychological aspects.--United States
Psychic trauma--Social aspects--United States.
Popular culture--United States.
Human body in popular culture.
Slavery in literature.
Slavery in motion pictures.
Historical reenactments--United States.
Esclavage--Aspect psychologique.--États-Unis
Traumatisme psychique--Aspect social--États-Unis.
Culture populaire--États-Unis.
Corps humain dans la culture populaire.
Esclavage dans la littérature.
Esclavage au cinéma.
Reconstitution historique--États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Slavery.
Historical reenactments.
Human body in popular culture.
Intellectual life.
Popular culture.
Psychic trauma--Social aspects.
Slavery in literature.
Slavery in motion pictures.
Slavery--Psychological aspects.
Slavery--Social aspects.
Social conditions
United States--Intellectual life.
United States--Social conditions--1980-
États-Unis--Vie intellectuelle.
United States.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
E441
306.3/62