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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Zwarg, Christina
Titre(s) : The archive of fear [Texte imprimé] : white crisis and black freedom in Douglass, Stowe, and Dubois [i.e. Du Bois] / Christina Zwarg
Édition : First edition
Publication : Oxford : Oxford university press, 2020
Description matérielle : xi, 191 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection : Oxford studies in American literary history
Lien à la collection : Oxford studies in American literary history
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
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 of slavery's perpetrators. 0A 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 the precursor 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 implication in the
Haitian revolution in both reality and fantasy had an impact on the history of emancipation
in the United States
Sujet(s) : Esclavage -- Dans la littérature
Esclavage -- États-Unis
Mouvements antiesclavagistes
Indice(s) Dewey :
973.711 4 (23e éd.) = Histoire - États-Unis - 1861-1865 - Mouvement en faveur de l'abolition
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0198866291. - ISBN 9780198866299
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb466361282
Notice n° :
FRBNF46636128
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: When Hegel falls silent -- ; 1.. Crisis and rehearsal in Frederick Douglass:
The archive of the interrupted lecture -- ; Interlude: moving things -- ; 2.. Who's
afraid of Virginia's Nat Turner? Mesmerism, Stowe, and the terror of things -- ; 3..
"More than lynched" : Du Bois, John Brown, and the black reconstruction of democracy
-- ; Postlude: Reconstruction in analysis.
