Possessing the Past: Trauma, Imagination, and Memory in Post-Plantation Southern Literature by Lisa Hinrichsen

Possessing the Past: Trauma, Imagination, and Memory in Post-Plantation Southern Literature

Southern Literary Studies

Lisa Hinrichsen

296 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics literary informative reflective medium-paced

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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 ...

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