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001 2012002925
003 DLC
005 20120224165628.0
008 120210s2012 ncu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2012002925
020 $a9780786464647 (softcover : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aPS374.S58$bA38 2012
082 00 $a810.9/3552$223
245 00 $aAfterimages of slavery :$bessays on appearances in recent American films, literature, television and other media /$cedited by Marlene D. Allen and Seretha D. Williams.
260 $aJefferson, N.C. :$bMcFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,$c2012.
263 $a1203
300 $ap. cm.
520 $a"Since the election of President Barack Obama, many pundits have declared that we are living in a "post-racial America," a culture where the legacy of slavery has been erased. The essays in this collection, however, point to a resurgence of the theme of slavery in American cultural artifacts from the late twentieth- and twenty-first centuries"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aReading and writing slavery. Meditation, misremembering, creativity, and healing in Zakes Mda's Cion / Seretha D. Williams -- Black women's ghostly re-visions of history / Joanne Chassot -- Inhabitants of borderlands: (an)other world of subjugation / Ula Gabrielle Gaha -- "If I allow myself to listen": slavery, historiography, and historical audition in David Bradley's The Chaneysville incident / Nicole Brittingham Furlonge -- Tricksterism, masquerades, and the legacy of the African diasporic past in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight robber / Marlene D. Allen -- Written on the walls: reflections of shifting definitions of slavery and self in Toni Morrison's A mercy / Eugenia P. Bryan -- The Laveau folk heroine: contemporary fiction revises the slave narrative / Tatia Jacobson Jordan -- Visualizing and positioning slavery. Hottentot Venus: unsettling the linear time of history and science / Eljka Vrljuga -- Hollywood's white legal heroes and the legacy of slave codes / Katie Rose Guest Pryal -- The slave's cabin: from the back of the big house to the National Register of Historic Places / Angelita Reyes -- "Commence the great work": the historical archive and unspeakable violence in Kyle Baker's Nat Turner / Jonathan W. Gray -- A comic routine: the place of slavery in identity formation for the twenty-first century / Laura Mae Lindo -- The slavery of the machine / Alexis Harley.
650 0 $aSlavery in literature.
650 0 $aAmerican prose literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican prose literature$y21st century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aSlavery in mass media.
700 1 $aAllen, Marlene D.,$d1971-
700 1 $aWilliams, Seretha D.,$d1970-