What would it mean to "get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Featuring original essays from an array of established and emerging scholars in the interdisciplinary field of African American studies, The Psychic Hold of Slavery offers a nuanced dialogue upon these questions.
What would it mean to "get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Featuring original essays from an array of established and emerging scholars in the interdisciplinary field of African American studies, The Psychic Hold of Slavery offers a nuanced dialogue upon these questions.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
SOYICA DIGGS COLBERT is an associate professor of African American studies and theater and performance studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She is the author of The African American Theatrical Body: Reception, Performance and the Stage. ROBERT J. PATTERSON is an associate professor of African American studies and English at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where he also directs the African American Studies program. He is the author of Exodus Politics: Civil Rights and Leadership in African American Literature and Culture. AIDA LEVY-HUSSEN is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of the forthcoming book, How To Read African American Literature: Post–Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: “Do You Want to Be Well?” Soyica Diggs Colbert Chapter 1: 12 Years a What?: Slavery, Representation, and Black Cultural Politics in 12 Years a Slave Robert J. Patterson Chapter 2: The Fruit of Abolition: Discontinuity and Difference in Terrance Hayes’s “The Avocado” Douglas A. Jones Jr. Chapter 3: Black Time: Slavery, Metaphysics, and the Logic of Wellness Calvin Warren Chapter 4: The Inside Turned Out Architecture of the Post-Neo-Slave Narrative Margo Natalie Crawford Chapter 5: Memwa se paswa: Sifting the Slave Past in Haiti Régine Michelle Jean-Charles Chapter 6: Staging Social Death: Alienation and Embodiment in Aishah Rahman’s Unfinished Women GerShun Avilez Chapter 7: Dancing with Death: Spike Lee’s Bamboozled Soyica Diggs Colbert Chapter 8: Laughing to Keep from Crying: Dave Chappelle’s Self-Exploration with “The Nigger Pixie” Brandon J. Manning Chapter 9: The Cartoonal Slave Michael Chaney Chapter 10: Trauma and the Historical Turn in Black Literary Discourse Aida Levy-Hussen Conclusion: Black Lives Matter, Except When They Don’t: Why Slavery’s Psychic Hold Matters Robert J. Patterson Selected Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
Acknowledgments Introduction: “Do You Want to Be Well?” Soyica Diggs Colbert Chapter 1: 12 Years a What?: Slavery, Representation, and Black Cultural Politics in 12 Years a Slave Robert J. Patterson Chapter 2: The Fruit of Abolition: Discontinuity and Difference in Terrance Hayes’s “The Avocado” Douglas A. Jones Jr. Chapter 3: Black Time: Slavery, Metaphysics, and the Logic of Wellness Calvin Warren Chapter 4: The Inside Turned Out Architecture of the Post-Neo-Slave Narrative Margo Natalie Crawford Chapter 5: Memwa se paswa: Sifting the Slave Past in Haiti Régine Michelle Jean-Charles Chapter 6: Staging Social Death: Alienation and Embodiment in Aishah Rahman’s Unfinished Women GerShun Avilez Chapter 7: Dancing with Death: Spike Lee’s Bamboozled Soyica Diggs Colbert Chapter 8: Laughing to Keep from Crying: Dave Chappelle’s Self-Exploration with “The Nigger Pixie” Brandon J. Manning Chapter 9: The Cartoonal Slave Michael Chaney Chapter 10: Trauma and the Historical Turn in Black Literary Discourse Aida Levy-Hussen Conclusion: Black Lives Matter, Except When They Don’t: Why Slavery’s Psychic Hold Matters Robert J. Patterson Selected Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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