Black feminism and traumatic legacies in contemporary African American literature /

Black Feminism and Traumatic Legacies in Contemporary African American Literature expands on a literary tradition where Black writers articulate the impact of slavery's legacy over time. Along with Black Feminist studies, this book demonstrates how trauma studies can transcend Eurocentric roots...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lewis, Apryl, 1991- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2023].
Series:	Reading trauma and memory.
Subjects:	Gyasi, Yaa. > Homegoing. Jones, Tayari. > American marriage. Ward, Jesmyn. > Sing, unburied, sing. Whitehead, Colson, > 1969- > Underground railroad. Feminism in literature. Psychic trauma in literature. Collective memory in literature.

Table of Contents:

"Not the being lost, but the being found": traumatic legacy and the search for home in Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing
What becomes of injustice? Shame and the obligation of remembrance and love in Tayari Jones' An American marriage
Reclaiming the ghosts of trauma's past: witnessing and testimony as healing in Jesmyn Ward's Sing, unburied, sing
Cora's resilience: the magnitude of trauma and freedom in Colson Whitehead's The underground railroad.