Haunting Capital : memory, text, and the black diasporic body / Hershini Bhana Young
Tipo de material: TextoSeries Reencounters with colonialism: new perspectives on the AmericasDetalles de publicación: Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England, 2005 Descripción: IX, 235 p. : il. ; 23 cmISBN: 1-58465-519-4Tema(s): Mujeres en la literatura -- SudáfricaResumen: In Haunting Capital, Hershini Young sets out to re-theorize the African diaspora so that the concept becomes unintelligible without an understanding of gender as a constitutive element. Young uses the historically injured bodies of black women, as represented in novels by black women, to talk about colonialism, gender, race, memory and haunting. Haunting Capital departs from traditional trauma studies, which stress individual wounding and psychotherapeutic models. Instead, Young explores the notion of injury as a collective wounding, resulting from the trauma of capitalistic regimes such as slavery and colonialism. She also introduces the idea of the ghost to her discussion of collective injury, where it functions not only on theoretical and metaphorical levels, but also by invoking African cosmologies in which ghosts are ancestral beings with a real spiritual presence.Tipo de ítem | Biblioteca de origen | Signatura | URL | Estado | Fecha de vencimiento | Código de barras | Reserva de ítems |
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In Haunting Capital, Hershini Young sets out to re-theorize the African diaspora so that the concept becomes unintelligible without an understanding of gender as a constitutive element. Young uses the historically injured bodies of black women, as represented in novels by black women, to talk about colonialism, gender, race, memory and haunting. Haunting Capital departs from traditional trauma studies, which stress individual wounding and psychotherapeutic models. Instead, Young explores the notion of injury as a collective wounding, resulting from the trauma of capitalistic regimes such as slavery and colonialism. She also introduces the idea of the ghost to her discussion of collective injury, where it functions not only on theoretical and metaphorical levels, but also by invoking African cosmologies in which ghosts are ancestral beings with a real spiritual presence.
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