Afterimages of slavery
Subtitle: essays on appearances in recent American films, literature, television and other media
By: edited by Marlene D. Allen and Seretha D. Williams
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780786464647
Subjects: Slavery in mass media; Slavery in literature; History and criticism; American prose literature
Description: "Since the election of President Barack Obama, many pundits have declared that we are living in a "post-racial America," a culture where the legacy of slavery has been erased. The essays in this collection, however, point to a resurgence of the theme of slavery in American cultural artifacts from the late twentieth- and twenty-first centuries"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reading and writing slavery. Meditation, misremembering, creativity, and healing in Zakes Mda's Cion / Seretha D. Williams; title: Black women's ghostly re-visions of history / Joanne Chassot; title: Inhabitants of borderlands: (an)other world of subjugation / Ula Gabrielle Gaha; title: "If I allow myself to listen": slavery, historiography, and historical audition in David Bradley's The Chaneysville incident  / Nicole Brittingham Furlonge; title: Tricksterism, masquerades, and the legacy of the African diasporic past in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight robber / Marlene D. Allen; title: Written on the walls: reflections of shifting definitions of slavery and self in Toni Morrison's A mercy / Eugenia P. Bryan; title: The Laveau folk heroine: contemporary fiction revises the slave narrative / Tatia Jacobson Jordan; title: Visualizing and positioning slavery. Hottentot Venus: unsettling the linear time of history and science / Eljka Vrljuga; title: Hollywood's white legal heroes and the legacy of slave codes / Katie Rose Guest Pryal; title: The slave's cabin: from the back of the big house to the National Register of Historic Places / Angelita Reyes; title: "Commence the great work": the historical archive and unspeakable violence in Kyle Baker's Nat Turner / Jonathan W. Gray; title: A comic routine: the place of slavery in identity formation for the twenty-first century / Laura Mae Lindo; title: The slavery of the machine / Alexis Harley.