Corporeal Legacies in the Us South: Memory and Embodiment in Contemporary Culture

ISBN-13: 9783319962047 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 226 str.

Christopher Lloyd

Opis

Drawing on the fields of Southern Studies, Memory Studies and Black Studies, the book also engages psychoanalysis, Animal Studies and posthumanism to revitalize questions of the racialized body.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The Body of/in Memory

2. The Plantation to the Penitentiary: Monster’s Ball and Bodies at their Limits

3. The Plantation to the Apocalypse: Zombies and the Non/human in The Walking Dead and A Questionable Shape

4. The Home of Jim Crow: Toilets and Matter in Kathryn Stockett’s The Help

5. “Everything deserve to live”: Animals, Hurricane Katrina, and Salvage the Bones

6. “Fabric of the universe is comin’ unraveled”: Beasts of the Southern Wild, from Flesh to Planet

7. Conclusion: Corporealizing Southern Studies

O autorze

Christopher Lloyd is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He is author of Rooting Memory, Rooting Place: Regionalism in the Twenty-First-Century American South (2015), and numerous special issues, journal articles and book chapters on race and memory in contemporary US literature and culture.