The Psychic Hold of Slavery: Legacies in American Expressive

The Psychic Hold of Slavery: Legacies in American Expressive Culture

What would it mean to â€œget over slaveryâ€? 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? Â Â
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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 presentâ€”and vice versaâ€”the contributors place slaveryâ€™s historical legacies in conversation with twenty-first-century manifestations of antiblack violence, dehumanization, and social death. Â Â
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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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Country USA
Manufacturer Rutgers University Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-06-22
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Rutgers University Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-06-22
Format	Kindle eBook

The Psychic Hold of Slavery: Legacies in American Expressive Culture

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