Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture Winter sports who together have nearly a

who together have nearly a millennium of experience in the death and dying movement

Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Award

When their mother goes out searching for yarn

who has been exhibiting behavior problems such as drug use and school truancy and who has recently been charged with breaking and entering

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Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture Winter sports who together have nearly aThis study explores contemporary novels, films, performances, and reenactments that depict American slavery and its traumatic effects by invoking a time travel paradigm to produce a representational strategy of ''bodily epistemology.'' Disrupting the prevailing view of traumatic knowledge that claims that traumatic events are irretrievable and accessible only through oblique reference, these novels and films circumvent the notion of indirect reference