Creating Memory and Cultural Identity in African American Trauma Fiction de Patricia San José Rico

Creating Memory and Cultural Identity in African American Trauma Fiction: Critical Approaches to Ethnic American Literature, cartea 6

Patricia San José Rico

How do contemporary African American authors relate trauma, memory, and the recovery of the past with the processes of cultural and identity formation in African American communities?
Patricia San José analyses a variety of novels by authors like Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, and David Bradley and explores these works as valuable instruments for the disclosure, giving voice, and public recognition of African American collective and historical trauma.

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Acknowledgments1 Introduction2 Cultural, Collective, and Literary Trauma: Foundations for Analysis1 Trauma: What it Is, How it Feels, What it Does 2 Collective Trauma 3 A “Story to Pass on”? Trauma and its Transmission 4 Trauma, Memory and Space: Sites of Memory/Sites of Trauma 5 Trauma Writing/Writing Trauma 6 Trauma Fiction3 History, Roots and Myth: Toni Morrison’s Paradise and Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day1 History and Traumatic Memory 2 Paradise: The Perils of Sublimated History 2.1 History Revisited2.2 This, you Must Learn: The Elders’ Exaltation of History2.3 Not the Truth, after all: Archival Work and the Unearthing of the Secret2.4 “An Endless Cycle of Repetition”: Inverted Racism and Violence2.5 Wind of Change: When the Out There Reaches Paradise2.6 Breaking the Cycle of Repetition: Sharing Trauma3 Know thy Roots: Mama Day and the Significance of the Past 3.1 Dynamic Memory vs. Stagnant History3.2 The Day Family: A Trauma within the Folds of Memory3.3 The Need for Roots: George and Cocoa4 The Dangers of Repression/Suppression: Toni Morrison’s Beloved1 Trauma and Hidden Memory 2 Beloved: The F/ Hateful Power of Repressed Trauma 2.1 “The Unspeakable”: Repressive Signs in Beloved’s Characters2.2 A Ghost (Hi)story: Beloved as the Return of the Repressed 2.3 Voicing it out: The Attempt and Failure of the Talking Cure 2.4 The Light at the End of the Tunnel: Denver and Recovery from Trauma5 The Recovery of History: Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon and David Bradley’s the Chaneysville Incident1 A Quest for One’s Past: Individuals, Collectivities, and Recovered Memory 2 The Truth Shall Make you Fly: Unearthing the Past in Song of Solomon 2.1 Trauma in Song of Solomon 2.2 That’s Not My Thing: Milkman’s Initial Disinterest in the Past 2.3 Of Roots and Ancestors: The Recovery of History as a Treasure Hunt 2.4 It Is All in There: Myth, Tales and Folk Culture as a Repository of Memory 2.5 Lieux de Mémoire: Places of History and the History in Places 2.6 Hallowed Be thy Name: Naming and the Power of Designation 2.7 Learning (in order) to Fly: The Acquisition of Historical Knowledge as a Liberating Process 2.8 Turning the Tables: Reversal of Stigmas and our Debt to the Future 3 Digging up History: The Chaneysville Incident and the Ethnic Historian 3.1 Historians vs. Archeologists: Study or Action? 3.2 Scholarly Knowledge vs. Ancestral Wisdom 3.3 The Contesting and Therapeutic Value of Recovering the Past 3.4 The Coalescence of Fact and Fiction: Bridging Genres and Cultures6 Epilogue: Is Closure Possible? The use of Trauma in Art as a Vehicle for Political Struggle1 “National Amnesia”: Searching for its Cure 2 Fighting Our Own Battles: The Use of Trauma in Political Struggle 3 Trauma as Art or the Art of Trauma? 4 Is Closure Possible?Works CitedIndex

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