Corporeal Legacies in the US South Memory and Embodiment in Contemporary Culture /

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...

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Hlavní autor: Lloyd, Christopher (Autor)
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Vydání:1st ed. 2018.
Témata:
United States-Study and teaching.
Motion pictures-United States.
America-Literatures.
African Americans.
Popular Culture.
ISBN:9783319962054
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Obsah:
  • 1 Introduction: The Body of/in Memory
  • 2 The Plantation to the Penitentiary: Monster's Ball and Bodies at their Limits
  • 3 The Plantation to the Apocalypse: Zombies and the Non/human in The Walking Dead and A Questionable Shape
  • 4 The Home of Jim Crow: Toilets and Matter in Kathryn Stockett's The Help
  • 5 "Everything deserve to live": Animals, Hurricane Katrina, and Salvage the Bones
  • 6 "Fabric of the universe is comin' unraveled": Beasts of the Southern Wild, from Flesh to Planet
  • 7 Conclusion: Corporealizing Southern Studies.

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