Pathologizing Black Bodies: The Legacy of Plantation Slavery Gonzlez Groba Constante
Pathologizing Black Bodies: The Legacy of Plantation Slavery Gonzlez Groba Constante Pathologizing Black Bodies reconsiders the black body as a site of cultural and corporeal interchange; one…
Specifikacia Pathologizing Black Bodies: The Legacy of Plantation Slavery Gonzlez Groba Constante
Pathologizing Black Bodies: The Legacy of Plantation Slavery Gonzlez Groba Constante
Pathologizing Black Bodies reconsiders the black body as a site of cultural and corporeal interchange; one involving violence and oppression, leaving memory and trauma sedimented in cultural conventions, political arrangements, social institutions and, most significantly, materially and symbolically engraved upon the body, with "the self" often deprived of agency and sovereignty. The variety of analytical approaches and thematic foci with respect to theories and discourses surrounding race and the body allow us to delve into Consisting of three parts, this study focuses on works of the twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction and cultural narratives by mainly African American authors, aiming to highlight the different ways in which race has been pathologized in America and examine how the legacies of plantation ideology have been metaphorically inscribed on black bodies.
The Routes of Slavery
The Bodies of Others
Legacy of the Mastodon
The Legacy of Luna
Legacy of the Lions