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The Psychic Hold of Slavery: Legacies in American Expressive Culture de Soyica Diggs Colbert

The Psychic Hold of Slavery: Legacies in American Expressive Culture

Editat de Soyica Diggs Colbert, Robert J. Patterson, Aida Levy-Hussen Contribuţii de Douglas A. Jones, Jr., Calvin Warren, Margo Natalie Crawford, Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, GerShun Avilez, Brandon J. Manning, Michael Chaney
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What would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining a postracist America? Or could the psychic hold of slavery be understood as a tool, helping us get a grip on the systemic racial inequalities and restricted liberties that persist in the present day?   
 
Featuring original essays from an array of established and emerging scholars in the interdisciplinary field of African American studies, The Psychic Hold of Slavery offers a nuanced dialogue upon these questions. With a painful awareness that our understanding of the past informs our understanding of the present—and vice versa—the contributors place slavery’s historical legacies in conversation with twenty-first-century manifestations of antiblack violence, dehumanization, and social death.   
 
Through an exploration of film, drama, fiction, performance art, graphic novels, and philosophical discourse, this volume considers how artists grapple with questions of representation, as they ask whether slavery can ever be accurately depicted, trace the scars that slavery has left on a traumatized body politic, or debate how to best convey that black lives matter. The Psychic Hold of Slavery thus raises provocative questions about how we behold the historically distinct event of African diasporic enslavement and how we might hold off the transhistorical force of antiblack domination.
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780813583952
ISBN-10: 0813583950
Pagini: 258
Ilustrații: 14 photographs
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press

Notă biografică

SOYICA DIGGS COLBERT is an associate professor of African American studies and theater and performance studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She is the author of The African American Theatrical Body: Reception, Performance and the Stage.
 
ROBERT J. PATTERSON is an associate professor of African American studies and English at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where he also directs the African American Studies program. He is the author of Exodus Politics: Civil Rights and Leadership in African American Literature and Culture.
 
AIDA LEVY-HUSSEN is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of the forthcoming book, How To Read African American Literature: Post–Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation.
 

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
Introduction: “Do You Want to Be Well?”
Soyica Diggs Colbert
Chapter 1: 12 Years a What?: Slavery, Representation, and Black Cultural Politics in 12 Years a Slave
Robert J. Patterson
Chapter 2: The Fruit of Abolition: Discontinuity and Difference in Terrance Hayes’s “The Avocado”
Douglas A. Jones Jr.
Chapter 3: Black Time: Slavery, Metaphysics, and the Logic of Wellness
Calvin Warren
Chapter 4: The Inside Turned Out Architecture of the Post-Neo-Slave Narrative
Margo Natalie Crawford
Chapter 5: Memwa se paswa: Sifting the Slave Past in Haiti
Régine Michelle Jean-Charles
Chapter 6: Staging Social Death: Alienation and Embodiment in Aishah Rahman’s Unfinished Women
GerShun Avilez
Chapter 7: Dancing with Death: Spike Lee’s Bamboozled
Soyica Diggs Colbert
Chapter 8: Laughing to Keep from Crying: Dave Chappelle’s Self-Exploration with “The Nigger Pixie”
Brandon J. Manning
Chapter 9: The Cartoonal Slave
Michael Chaney
Chapter 10: Trauma and the Historical Turn in Black Literary Discourse
Aida Levy-Hussen
Conclusion: Black Lives Matter, Except When They Don’t: Why Slavery’s Psychic Hold Matters
Robert J. Patterson
Selected Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
 

Recenzii

"Suggesting that even the violence against blacks that fueled the Black Lives Matter movement is on the slavery continuum, this volume argues that slavery continues to shape the US's fundamental psychology and its systemic racial hierarchy. A postracial US is yet to come ... Recommended"

"[The Psychic Hold of Slavery] is well written and well organized. The proficiency and writing style of the contributors serves to reassure readers that they are among knowledgeable experts in the field… This is a must read book for any African American Studies course."

"This collection is a timely, fascinating, often brilliant scholarly intervention in matters central both to the range of scholars and artists whose work it discusses and to the field of Black Studies."

"These intelligent and provocative essays wonderfully show us what a rich array of art forms (films, literature, television, and cartoons) have to say about what slavery has done and undone."

Descriere

What would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? To explore these questions, The Psychic Hold of Slavery assembles a diverse collection of literary and film critics, philosophers, and cultural theorists. With a painful awareness that our understanding of the past informs our understanding of the present—and vice versa—the contributors place slavery’s historical legacies in conversation with twenty-first-century manifestations of antiblack violence, dehumanization, and social death.