Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Property on the Postslavery Plantation

by Jessica Adams

Book Overview

From Storyville brothels and narratives of turn-of-the-century New Orleans to plantation tours, Bette Davis films, Elvis memorials, Willa Cather's fiction, and the annual prison rodeo held at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Jessica Adams considers spatial and ideological evolutions of southern plantations after slavery. In Wounds of Returning, Adams shows that the slave past returns to inhabit plantation landscapes that have been...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807858013
• ISBN13: 9780807858011
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.7"