Afterimages of slavery : essays on appearances in recent American films, literature, television and other media / edited by Marlene D. Allen and Seretha D. Williams.
"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 ar...
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Table of Contents:
- Reading 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.