Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The quick gasp of sympathy": trauma and interracial witnessing in
Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose -- Betrayal trauma and the test of
complicity in Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus -- Between women: trauma,
witnessing, and the legacy of interracial rape in Robbie McCauley's
Sally's rape -- Uncanny spaces: trauma, cultural memory, and female
body in Gayl Jones's Corregidora -- "I have never seen a movie like
that": traumatic memory and the "acceleration of history" in Anna
Deavere Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992.

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Dewey Class: 810.9928708996 -- American literature in English
LCC Number: PS153

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Language: eng
Physical Description: x, 134 p. ; 23 cm.
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