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How to Read African American Literature: Post-Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation
How to Read African American Literature offers a series of provocations to unsettle the predominant assumptions readers make when encountering post-Civil Rights black fiction. Foregrounding the large body of literature and criticism that grapples with legacies of the slave past, Aida Levy-Hussen's a... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
The Psychic Hold of Slavery: Legacies in American Expressive Culture
by Robert J. Patterson • Margo Natalie Crawford • Brandon J. Manning • Aida Levy-Hussen • Régine Michelle Jean-Charles • Calvin Warren • Soyica Diggs Colbert • Michael Chaney • Douglas A. Jones • Gershun AvilezWhat 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 g... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016