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Author:

Awkward, Michael.

Title:

Philadelphia freedoms : black American trauma, memory, and culture after King / Michael Awkward.

Publisher:

Temple University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Subject:

American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
Collective memory in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
American fiction--African American authors.
Collective memory.
Literature.
Psychic trauma.
Psychisches Trauma.
Kollektives Gedächtnis.
Rassenpolitik.
Literatur.
Kultur.
Schwarze.
Philadelphia, Pa.
USA.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Keeping the past in lively memory after King: the traumatic implications of black American oppression -- 'Philadelphia did not burn': quelling riots, deferring hoop dreams in the age of the militant black athlete -- Haunted longings: nostalgic black musical formulations of masculinity and the patriarchal family -- "A 'genuinely Afro-American narrative': Sarah Phillips and the politics of black textual authenticity -- Screening the Beloved novel: on Oprah Winfrey and the protocols of adaptation -- Conclusion: No longer at home?.

ISBN:

1439907099 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781439907092 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1439907080 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781439907085 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)842209212

LCCN:

2013016621

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)