Traumatic possessions
Subtitle: the body and memory in African American women's writing and performance
By: Jennifer L. Griffiths.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813928838; 9780813928845; 9780813928951
Subjects: American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Psychic trauma in literature; Human body in literature; Memory in literature; African American women in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "The quick gasp of sympathy": trauma and interracial witnessing in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose; title: Betrayal trauma and the test of complicity in Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus; title: Between women: trauma, witnessing, and the legacy of interracial rape in Robbie Mccauley's Sally's rape; title: Uncanny spaces: trauma, cultural memory, and female body in Gayl Jones's Corregidora; title: "I have never seen a movie like that": traumatic memory and the "acceleration of history" in Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992.