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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826830603321

Autore

Woolfork Lisa <1970->

Titolo

Embodying American slavery in contemporary culture [[electronic resource] /] / Lisa Woolfork

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2009

ISBN

1-283-15563-X

9786613155634

0-252-09296-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Disciplina

306.3/62

Soggetti

Slavery - Social aspects - United States

Slavery - United States - Psychological aspects

Psychic trauma - Social aspects - United States

Popular culture - United States

Human body in popular culture

Slavery in literature

Slavery in motion pictures

Historical reenactments - United States

United States Intellectual life

United States Social conditions 1980-2020

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-221) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.