Research Catalog

Title

The psychic hold of slavery : legacies in American expressive culture / edited by Soyica Diggs Colbert, Robert J. Patterson, and Aida Levy-Hussen.

Publication

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Colbert, Soyica Diggs, 1979-
• Patterson, Robert J., 1980-
• Levy-Hussen, Aida, 1981-

Description

x, 246 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"The Psychic Hold of Slavery convenes established and emerging scholars from the interdisciplinary field of African American Studies to consider how the psychological imprint of collective trauma and loss crystallizes in contemporary black discursive, aesthetic, and performative practices. The volume's diverse contributors--literary and film critics, philosophers, and cultural theorists--offer original considerations of the temporality of slavery and the challenges of representation in the context of protracted Western traditions of anti-blackness. The essays vary in their objects of study, methods, and conclusions, matriculating to complex dialogue rather than a common endorsement. They are united chiefly by their attention to a paradox at the heart of black studies today: that the history of racial slavery gains intellectual potency and ubiquity in a moment marked by unprecedented legal gains and the popularly professed rise of "post-racial" sensibilities. Consolidating numerous perspectives on the desires, investments, and identitarian logics through which the legacy of slavery persists in contemporary life, this collection will be of interest to critics concerned with the diffuse reverberations of the slave past, and more generally, to those interested in current discussions of anti-black violence, "disposable" populations, and new forms and capacities of black political subjectivity"--

Subject

• African Americans > Study and teaching
• American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
• African Americans in literature
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery
• LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American
• PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global)
• HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
• American literature > African American authors
• United States

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-232) and index.

Contents

12 years a what? Slavery, representation, and black cultural politics in "12 years a slave" / Robert J. Patterson -- The fruit of abolition: Discontinuity and difference in Terrance Hayes's "The avocado" / Douglas A. Jones Jr. -- Black time: Slavery, metaphysics, and the logic of wellness / Calvin Warren -- The inside-turned out architecture of the post-neo-slave narrative / Margo Natalie Crawford -- Memwa se paswa: Sifting the slave past in Haiti / Regine Michelle Jean-Charles -- Staging social death: Alienation and embodiment in Aishah Rahman's "Unfinished Women" / Gershun Avilez -- Dancing with death: Spike Lee's "Bamboozled" / Soyica Diggs Colbert -- Laughing to keep from crying: Dave Chappelle's self exploration with "The Nigger Pixie" / Brandon J. Manning -- The cartoonal slave / Michael Chaney -- Trauma and the historical turn in black literary discourse / Aida Levy-Hussen.

Call Number

Sc E 16-1000

ISBN

• 9780813583969 (hardback)
• 0813583969 (hardback)
• 9780813583952 (pbk.)
• 0813583950 (pbk.)

LCCN

2015041072

OCLC

930257175

Title

The psychic hold of slavery : legacies in American expressive culture / edited by Soyica Diggs Colbert, Robert J. Patterson, and Aida Levy-Hussen.

Publisher

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-232) and index.

Added Author

Colbert, Soyica Diggs, 1979- editor.

Patterson, Robert J., 1980- editor.

Levy-Hussen, Aida, 1981- editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 16-1000