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Black feminism and traumatic legacies in contemporary African American literature
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"Black Feminism and Traumatic Legacies in Contemporary African American Literature expands on a literary tradition where Black writers articulate the impact of slavery's legacy over time. Along wit...
"Black Feminism and Traumatic Legacies in Contemporary African American Literature 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"--
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- Creator
- Apryl Lewis
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- Language
- English
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- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023]
- ©2023
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- ix, 147 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781666921380, 9781666921397, 1666921386
- OCLC
- on1350645547, on1350799530
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "Not the being lost, but the being found": traumatic legacy and the search for home in Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing -- What becomes of injustice? Shame and the obligation of remembrance and love in Tayari Jones' An American marriage -- Reclaiming the ghosts of trauma's past: witnessing and testimony as healing in Jesmyn Ward's Sing, unburied, sing -- Cora's resilience: the magnitude of trauma and freedom in Colson Whitehead's The underground railroad
Subjects
- Gyasi, Yaa. Homegoing.
- Jones, Tayari. American marriage.
- Ward, Jesmyn. Sing, unburied, sing.
- Whitehead, Colson, 1969- Underground railroad.
- American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
- Feminism in literature.
- Psychic trauma in literature.
- Collective memory in literature.