Corporeal Legacies in the Us South: Memory and Embodiment in Contemporary Culture

by Christopher Lloyd

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319962043
• ISBN13: 9783319962047
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"