Traumatic possessions the body and memory in African American women's writing and performance / Jennifer L. Griffiths.

Contents "The quick gasp of sympathy": trauma and interracial witnessing in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose -- Betrayal trauma and the test of complicity in Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus -- Between women: trauma, witnessing, and the legacy of interracial rape in Robbie Mccauley's Sally's rape -- Uncanny spaces: trauma, cultural memory, and female body in Gayl Jones's Corregidora -- "I have never seen a movie like that": traumatic memory and the "acceleration of history" in Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [121]-129) and index.
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ISBN9780813928838 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780813928845 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780813928951 (e-book)

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