The Psychic Hold of Slavery
Legacies in American Expressive Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19947992 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gershun Avilez, Michael A Chaney (0009-0004-5650-7617), Margo Natalie Crawford, Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (0000-0001-7851-451X), Douglas A Jones Jr, Brandon J Manning, Calvin Warren |
| Editors | Soyica Diggs Colbert, Robert J Patterson (0000-0003-1494-8399), Aida Levy-Hussen |
| Year | 2019 |
| Pages | 258 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Psychic Hold of Slavery (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Rutgers University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.36019/9780813583983 |
| OpenAlex | W2619741199 |
| Open Library | OL34068829M |
| ISBN | 9780813583983 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 2 |
What would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining a postracist America? Or could the psychic hold of slavery be understood as a tool, helping us get a grip on the systemic racial inequalities and restricted liberties that persist in the present day? Featuring original essays from an array of established and emerging scholars in the interdisciplinary field of African American studies, The Psychic Hold of Slavery offers a nuanced dialogue upon these questions. 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. Through an exploration of film, drama, fiction, performance art, graphic novels, and philosophical discourse, this volume considers how artists grapple with questions of representation, as they ask whether slavery can ever be accurately depicted, trace the scars that slavery has left on a traumatized body politic, or debate how to best convey that black lives matter. The Psychic Hold of Slavery thus raises provocative questions about how we behold the historically distinct event of African diasporic enslavement and how we might hold off the transhistorical force of antiblack domination
Art · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Medicine · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · African American · African American authors · african american authors, history and criticism · African americans · African americans in literature · American · American literature · Black Studies (Global) · Civil War Period (1850-1877) · History · History and criticism · Literary Criticism · Slavery · Social psychology · Social Science · Study and teaching · united states
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2021 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |