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Author:

Hinrichsen, Lisa, 1978-

Title:

Possessing the past : trauma, imagination, and memory in post-plantation southern literature / Lisa Hinrichsen.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xiii, 279 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--Southern States--History and criticism.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Memory in literature.
Southern States--In literature.
American literature.
Literature.
Memory in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Southern States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-268) and index.

Contents:

Introduction. Memory in transit : mourning, memorialization, and the work of fantasy in the U.S. south -- Trauma, testimony, and Temple Drake in Sanctuary and Requiem for a nun -- Wanting magic : fantasy, fiction, and cultural capital in A streetcar named Desire -- Southern autobiography, wound culture, and the politics of victimhood -- Visions and revisions of Vietnam : misrecognition, memory, and the meaning of war -- Imagining otherwise : the post-plantation multicultural imagination -- Turning south again : a meditation on repetition, renewal, and remembering.

Series:

Southern literary studies

ISBN:

0807160059 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780807160053 (cloth : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)894313619

LCCN:

2014046075

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)