Traumatic possessions [[electronic resource] ] : the body and memory in African American women's writing and performance / / Jennifer L. Griffiths
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Griffiths Jennifer L. <1968->
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| Titolo: |
Traumatic possessions [[electronic resource] ] : the body and memory in African American women's writing and performance / / Jennifer L. Griffiths
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| Pubblicazione: | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (145 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/9287/08996 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | "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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Traumatic possessions |
| ISBN: | 1-280-49015-2 |
| 9786613585387 | |
| 0-8139-2895-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910781646803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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