Traumatic possessions : the body and memory in African American women's writing and performance /
Griffiths, Jennifer L.,1968-
Charlottesville, Va. ; London : University of Virginia Press,
2009.
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.
American literature
American literature
Psychic trauma in literature.
Human body in literature.
Memory in literature.
African American women in literature.