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Prophetic Remembrance: Black Subjectivity in African American and South African Trauma Narratives
Erica Still
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Description for Prophetic Remembrance: Black Subjectivity in African American and South African Trauma Narratives
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Using the term “prophetic remembrance” to articulate the expression of a constituent faith in the performative capacity of language, Erica Still shows how black subjectivity is born of and interprets cultural trauma. She brings together African American neo-slave narratives and black South African postapartheid narratives to reveal the processes by which black subjectivity accounts for its traumatic origins, names the therapeutic work of the present, and inscribes the possibility of the future.
The author draws on trauma studies, black theology, and literary criticism as she considers how writers such as Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson, John Edgar Wideman, David Bradley, ... Read more
Using the term “prophetic remembrance” to articulate the expression of a constituent faith in the performative capacity of language, Erica Still shows how black subjectivity is born of and interprets cultural trauma. She brings together African American neo-slave narratives and black South African postapartheid narratives to reveal the processes by which black subjectivity accounts for its traumatic origins, names the therapeutic work of the present, and inscribes the possibility of the future.
The author draws on trauma studies, black theology, and literary criticism as she considers how writers such as Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson, John Edgar Wideman, David Bradley, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813936567
SKU
V9780813936567
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About Erica Still
Erica Still is Assistant Professor of English at Wake Forest University, USA.
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