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Author:

Croisille, Valérie, author.

Title:

Black American women's voices and transgenerational trauma : re(-)membering in neo-slave narratives / by Valérie Croisille.

Publisher:

Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

vi, 148 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

1900-2099
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--21st century--History and criticism.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Race in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
African Americans in literature.
American literature.
American literature--African American authors.
American literature--Women authors.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Race in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-145) and index.

Contents:

Dismembering to re(-)member in O. Butler's Kindred -- The stings of familial memory in G. Jones' Corregidora -- From Seclusion to Liberation in P.A. Perry's Stigmata and A Sunday in June -- Witnessing the trauma of slavery through the voice of a ghost narrator: J.C. Cooper's Family and A. Lark's Avenue of Palms.

Summary:

"This book concentrates on six neo-slave narratives written by late 20th and early 21st century black American women: Octavia Butler's Kindred, Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata and A Sunday in June, Gayl Jones' Corregidora, Joan California Cooper's Family, and Athena Lark's Avenue of Palms. It explores the process of re(-)membering of the black female characters in these novels, and shows how these authors manage to both write the transgenerational trauma of slavery and write through it, enabling black American women's voices to be heard. This analysis of famous classics, as well as less-known books, demonstrates how black American women's traumatic memory of slavery is inscribed in a transgenerational black female body. Conjuring up questions of narratology and intertextuality, it highlights how working-through takes the form of a narrativization of this traumatic memory by diverse means. This book also reflects upon the links between the collective and personal psyches by laying emphasis on the ineluctable intertwining of national history and individual destiny." -- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781527575288
1527575284

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1281239358

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)