The Psychic Hold of Slavery: Legacies in American Expressive Culture

What would it mean to "get over slavery"? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? To explore these questions, The Psychic Hold of Slavery assembles a diverse collection of literary and film critics, philosophers, and cultural theorists. 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.

Author(s): Soyica Diggs Colbert, Robert J. Patterson, Aida Levy-Hussen
Published: 2016
Categories: HISTORY