"Focusing on U.S. slavery and its aftermath in the nineteenth century, The Archive of Fear explores the traumatic force field that continued to inflect discussions of slavery and abolition both before and after the Civil War. It challenges the long-assumed distinction between psychological and...

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1. Verfasser:	Zwarg, Christina 1949- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Oxford Oxford University Press 2020
Ausgabe:	First edition
Schriftenreihe:	Oxford studies in American literary history
Schlagworte:	Du Bois, William E. B. > 1868-1963 Douglass, Frederick > 1818-1895 Stowe, Harriet Beecher > 1811-1896 Literatur Sklaverei > Motiv USA
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Zusammenfassung:	"Focusing on U.S. slavery and its aftermath in the nineteenth century, The Archive of Fear explores the traumatic force field that continued to inflect discussions of slavery and abolition both before and after the Civil War. It challenges the long-assumed distinction between psychological and cultural-historical theories of trauma, discovering a virtual dialogue between three central U. S. writers and Sigmund Freud concerning the traumatic response ofslavery's perpetrators. A strain of trauma theory and practice comes alive in the temporal and spatial disruptions of New World slavery-and The Archive of Fear shows how key elements of that theory still inform the infrastructure of race relations today. It argues that trauma theory before Freud first involves a return to an overlap between crisis, insurrection, and mesmerism found in the work of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Mesmer's "crisis state" has long been read as theprecursor to hypnosis, the tool Freud famously rejected when he created psychoanalysis. But the story of what was lost to trauma theory when Freud adopted the "talk cure" can be told through cultural disruptions of New World slavery, especially after mesmerism arrived in Saint Domingue where its implicationin the Haitian revolution in both reality and fantasy had an impact on the history of emancipation in the United States." Klappentext
Beschreibung:	Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Beschreibung:	xi, 191 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:	9780198866299