The Psychic Hold Of Slavery: Legacies In American Expressive Culture

What would it mean to "get over slavery"? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? To explore these questions, The Psychic Hold of Slavery assembles a diverse collection of literary and film critics, philosophers, and cultural theorists. With a painful awareness that our understanding of the past informs our understanding of the present--and vice versa--the contributors place slavery's historical legacies in conversation with twenty-first-century manifestations of antiblack violence, dehumanization, and social death.

• | Author: Soyica Diggs Colbert, Robert J. Patterson, Aida Levy-Hussen
• | Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 20, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 258 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0813583950
• | ISBN-13: 9780813583952