Trauma, Imagination, and Memory in Post-Plantation Southern Literature
by
Lisa Hinrichsen
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Employing recent theories of memory from multiple areas of study, Possessing the Past illuminates the tangled relationships among trauma, fantasy, and the public sphere, and their impact on the "South" in imagination and in reality. Focusing on the roles that narrative and fantasy play in creating...