Prophetic Remembrance: Black Subjectivity in African American and South African Trauma Narratives

by Erica Still

Book Overview

Using the term "prophetic remembrance" to articulate the expression of a constituent faith in the performative capacity of language, Erica Still shows how black subjectivity is born of and interprets cultural trauma. She brings together African American neo-slave narratives and Black South African postapartheid narratives to reveal the processes by which black subjectivity accounts for its traumatic origins, names the therapeutic work of the present,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081393656X
• ISBN13: 9780813936567
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 9.9"