Traumatic possessions : the body and memory in African American women's writing and performance / / Jennifer L. Griffiths.
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | x, 134 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- "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.