Traumatic possessions : the body and memory in African American women's writing and performance /

Traumatic possessions : the body and memory in African American women's writing and performance / / Jennifer L. Griffiths.

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Traumatic possessions [electronic resource] : the body and memory in African American women's writing and performance / Jennifer L. Griffiths.
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.
x, 134 p.
Includes bibliographical references 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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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.
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