Black Feminism and Traumatic Legacies in Contemporary African American Literature - Apryl Lewis

Black Feminism and Traumatic Legacies in Contemporary African American Literature

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Buch | Hardcover
158 Seiten
2023
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-2138-0 (ISBN)
85,95 inkl. MwSt
This book expands on a literary tradition where Black writers articulate the impact of slavery's legacy over time. Along with Black Feminist studies, this book demonstrates how trauma studies can transcend Eurocentric roots by encompassing traumatic experiences of other cultures through intersectionality.
Black Feminism and Traumatic Legacies in Contemporary African American Literature employs an analysis of select African American novels and applies trauma studies and Black Feminist Studies to explain the significance of trauma and traumatic experiences that stem from slavery and how this advances scholarly discussions about African American literature. Using the crooked room theory from Melissa Harris-Perry’s Sister Citizen (2011), the author argues that the traumatic legacy of slavery is the “crooked room” that African Americans, especially Black women, are forced to navigate to facilitate healing. Much like trauma, healing is not a linear concept, and healing is more about reclaiming oneself in the aftermath of traumatic experiences. An intersectional approach facilitated by Black Feminist Studies is pivotal for uplifting the traumatic experiences of African Americans, especially women, that does justice to their specific histories. Although slavery is pushed out of public awareness because of people who are uncomfortable with confronting slavery’s traumatic magnitude on the Black community, African American literature is not removed from discussing past and present traumas that are pervasive in the Black community.

Apryl Lewis is English Instructor at Fresno City College.

Introduction

Chapter 1: “Not the Being Lost, but the Being Found”: Traumatic Legacy and the Search for Home in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing

Chapter 2: What Becomes of Injustice? Shame and the Obligation of Remembrance and Love in Tayari Jones’ An American Marriage

Chapter 3: Reclaiming the Ghosts of Trauma’s Past: Witnessing and Testimony as Healing in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing

Chapter 4: Cora’s Resilience: The Magnitude of Trauma and Freedom in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad

Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Reading Trauma and Memory
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 240 mm
Gewicht 431 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-6669-2138-6 / 1666921386
ISBN-13 978-1-6669-2138-0 / 9781666921380
Zustand Neuware
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