Embodying American slavery in contemporary culture
By: Lisa Woolfork.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780252033902
Subjects: Slavery -- Social aspects -- United States; Slavery -- United States -- Psychological aspects; Psychic trauma -- Social aspects -- United States; Popular culture -- United States; Body, Human, in popular culture; Slavery in literature; Slavery in motion pictures; Historical reenactments -- United States; United States -- Intellectual life; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Trauma and time travel; title: Touching scars, touching slavery : trauma, quilting, and bodily epistemology; title: Teach you a lesson, boy : endangered Black male teens meet the slave past; title: Slave tourism and rememory; title: Ritual reenactments; title: Historical reenactments.