TY  - BOOK
AU  - Woolfork,Lisa
TI  - Embodying American slavery in contemporary culture
SN  - 9780252092961
AV  - E441 
U1  - 306.3/62 22
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Psychic trauma
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Human body in popular culture
KW  - Slavery in literature
KW  - Slavery in motion pictures
KW  - Historical reenactments
KW  - Esclavage
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Aspect psychologique
KW  - Traumatisme psychique
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Culture populaire
KW  - Corps humain dans la culture populaire
KW  - Esclavage dans la littérature
KW  - Esclavage au cinéma
KW  - Reconstitution historique
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 1980-
KW  - Vie intellectuelle
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-221) and index; Introduction : go there to know there -- Trauma and time travel -- Touching scars, touching slavery : trauma, quilting, and bodily epistemology -- Teach you a lesson, boy : endangered black male teens meet the slave past -- Slave tourism and rememory -- Ritual reenactments -- Historical reenactments -- Conclusion : a soul baby talks back
N2  - This study explores contemporary novels, films, performances, and reenactments that depict American slavery and its traumatic effects by invoking a time-travel paradigm to produce a representational strategy of "bodily epistemology." Disrupting the prevailing view of traumatic knowledge that claims that traumatic events are irretrievable and accessible only through oblique reference, these novels and films circumvent the notion of indirect reference by depicting a replaying of the past, forcing present-day protagonists to witness and participate in traumatic histories that for them are neither dead nor past. Lisa Woolfork analyzes how these works deploy a representational strategy that challenges the divide between past and present, imparting to their recreations of American slavery a physical and emotional energy to counter America's apathetic or amnesiac attitude about the trauma of the slave past. --From publisher's description
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