This book examines the ways in which the histories of racial violence,
from slavery onwards, are manifest in representations of the body in
twenty-first-century culture set in the US South. Christopher Lloyd
focuses on corporeality in literature and film to detail the workings
of cultural memory in the present. Drawing on the fields of Southern
Studies, Memory Studies and Black Studies, the book also engages
psychoanalysis, Animal Studies and posthumanism to revitalize
questions of the racialized body. Lloyd traces corporeal legacies in
the US South through novels by Jesmyn Ward, Kathryn Stockett and
others, alongside film and television such as Beasts of the Southern
Wild and The Walking Dead. In all, the book explores the ways in which
bodies in contemporary southern culture bear the traces of racial
regulation and injury.
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ISBN
9783319962054
Publisert
2018
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Vendor
Palgrave Macmillan
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
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Digital bok
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