Brimming with inspired historical insight, The Archive of Fear expands our thinking about both trauma and slavery in powerful ways. Zwarg takes up the writings of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and W. E. B. Du Bois to show us how the violence that structured Atlantic enslavement had a temporality that exceeds the legal boundaries of slavery, spreading traumatic energies in insidious, hard-to-detect ways. This a timely and thoroughly engrossing
book.
Christina Zwarg is a Professor of English at Haverford College where she won a Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. After completing a Mellon Faculty Fellowship in the Humanities at Harvard University she published Feminist Conversations: Fuller, Emerson and the Play of Reading, which Choice named an Outstanding Academic Book and Cornell University Press nominated for the MLA First Book Award. Zwarg has published on 19th and 20th century authors and
topics in American Literature, American Literary History, Novel, Studies in Romanticism, Poe Studies, and Cultural Critique and Social Text, and her work has been reprinted in Norton Critical Editions. She has also served as a member of the Division of Psychoanalytic Approaches to Literature on the Delegate
Assembly of the MLA.