The keloids we heal : trauma, spirituality, and Black modernity in literature /
The corporeal and spiritual healing in literature by women of colors can be seen to redefine modern thought and printed text. Sarah Soanirina Ohmer traces the impact of colonization and enslavement on Black women and Black women's contributions to colonial and nineteenth century literature in t...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2025].
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| Series: | Transformations (University of Illinois (System). Press)
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| Summary: | The corporeal and spiritual healing in literature by women of colors can be seen to redefine modern thought and printed text. Sarah Soanirina Ohmer traces the impact of colonization and enslavement on Black women and Black women's contributions to colonial and nineteenth century literature in the United States, Brazil and Cuba. Drawing on intersectional analysis, Ohmer focuses on portrayals of trauma and spirituality in works by Toni Morrison, Conceição Evaristo, Maryse Condé, Gloria Anzaldúa, the Quilombhoje poets and María de los Reyes Castillo. Ohmer compares literature from different countries along four thematic pathway,: ghosts, mirrors, naming and motherhood. Her analysis unlocks the literature's power to heal through gut-wrenching descriptions of wounds and thrilling passages of hope and liberation. Throughout, Ohmer weaves in her life story as a Black woman as she reflects on how colonialism, racism, sexism and capitalism have impacted her work, traumas, and faith journey. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 245 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780252046452 0252046455 9780252088544 0252088549 |